pollino
Catalan
Verb
pollino
- first-person singular present indicative of pollinar
Italian
Etymology
From the Latin pullīnus (“relating to young animals”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /polˈli.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: pol‧lì‧no
Adjective
pollino (feminine pollina, masculine plural pollini, feminine plural polline)
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Spanish
Etymology
From the Latin pullīnus (“relating to young animals”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈʝino/ [poˈʝi.no] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /poˈʎino/ [poˈʎi.no] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /poˈʃino/ [poˈʃi.no] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /poˈʒino/ [poˈʒi.no] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: po‧lli‧no
Noun
pollino m (plural pollinos, feminine pollina, feminine plural pollinas)
- ass, donkey, especially a young and untamed one
- a rude, unsophisticated or ignorant person
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Adjective
pollino (feminine pollina, masculine plural pollinos, feminine plural pollinas)
- (of a person) rude, unsophisticated or ignorant
Further reading
- “pollino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024