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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pequeno, ultimately probably from Vulgar Latin pĭtĭnnus, probably related to a Celtic root (compare Irish beag, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos, "small"). Cognate with Portuguese pequeno and Spanish pequeño.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈkeno/
- Rhymes: -eno
- Hyphenation: pe‧que‧no
Adjective
pequeno (feminine pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas)
- little, short, small; smaller
Home pequeno, fol de veleno- A little man, a bag of poison
(proverb)
- young; younger
Este é o meu irmán pequeno.- This one here is my younger brother.
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pequeno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pequeno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pequeno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pequeno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pequeno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pequeno, probably from Vulgar Latin *peccuinnus. Compare Spanish pequeño, French petit and Italian piccolo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ẽnu
- Hyphenation: pe‧que‧no
Adjective
pequeno (feminine pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas, comparable, comparative menor, superlative pequeníssimo)
- small
- Antonym: grande
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
pequeno m (plural pequenos, feminine pequena, feminine plural pequenas)
- (colloquial) child