mezinha

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === melzina (Trás-os-Montes) menzinha (Alentejo) mèzinha (pre-reform spelling) meizinha (obsolete, dialectal) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meezinha (“medicine, remedy”), from Latin medicīna (“medicine, remedy, cure”). Cognate with Galician menciña, Spanish melecina, Catalan metzina. Doublet of medicina. === Pronunciation === Homophone: mesinha (Brazil) Hyphenation: me‧zi‧nha === Noun === mezinha f (plural mezinhas) home remedy ==== Descendants ==== Macanese: mizinha === Further reading === “mezinha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “mezinha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026