mesquiño

== Galician == === Alternative forms === mesquinho (reintegrationist) miscuriño, misquiño === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese mesquinno (“poor”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn). Compare Portuguese mesquinho and Spanish mezquino, Sicilian mischinu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [mesˈkiɲʊ] === Noun === mesquiño m (plural mesquiños) (archaic) poor Synonym: pobre === Adjective === mesquiño (feminine mesquiña, masculine plural mesquiños, feminine plural mesquiñas) miserable Synonyms: miserable, ruín miserly; greedy Synonyms: avaro, avarento ==== Derived terms ==== mesquindade === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mesquiño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mesquiño”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesquiño”, 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), “mesquiño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesquiño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN “mesquiño”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026