mino

English

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Mino (straw cape)

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnəʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnoʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
• Homophone: minnow

Noun

mino (plural mino)

1. (historical) A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.

Etymology 2

Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnoʊ/

Noun

mino (plural minos)

1. Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
   • 1877, C. W. Gedney, Foreign cage birds, volume 2, page 195:

     He is a native of East India and its adjacent islands, but the high estimation in which the Mino is held amongst the natives, and the ready sale which promising specimens realise (the equivalent of £2 being often paid in India) render it difficult to obtain a really good bird in England except at an extravagant price.

Derived terms

• mino bird

Anagrams

• Moni, omni, omni-

Catalan

Verb

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧no

Noun

mino

1. (folklore) a magic spell cast, by a supernatural being, to confuse, disorient or make people lose their way

Verb

mino

1. (folklore) to disorient; to become lost

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
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• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: mi‧no

Noun

mino (accusative singular minon, plural minoj, accusative plural minojn)

1. mine (place where ores or minerals are mined)

   Synonym: minejo

Faliscan

Etymology

Cognate with Latin minor.

Adjective

mino (feminine mino)

1. smaller
2. younger

French

Noun

mino m (plural minos)

1. Alternative spelling of minot (“kid”)

Italian

Verb

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minare

Anagrams

• -nimo, nimo, nomi

Javanese

Noun

mino

1. Nonstandard spelling of mina.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.noː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.no/,

Etymology 1

Collateral form of minor (“threaten, goad”). Attested in sense 1 from the second century CE in Apuleius. Sense 2 is found in numerous later works.

Verb

minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation

1. to drive or goad (animals)
2. to drive or lead (people) (Late Latin)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• amoenus

Descendants

Etymology 2

From mina (“ore, mine”) +‎ -ō (denominative verb suffix), from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

Verb

minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. to mine
2. to sap, undermine

Conjugation

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “minare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “minare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 682

Further reading

• “mino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mino in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -inɔ
• Syllabification: mi‧no

Noun

mino f

1. vocative singular of mina

Portuguese

Verb

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmino/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: mi‧no

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lunfardo.

Noun

mino m (plural minos, feminine mina, feminine plural minas)

1. (Argentina, Chile, colloquial) boy (young man)

Etymology 2

Verb

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

Further reading

• “mino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014