Taino

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See also: taino, taíno, and Taíno

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Etymology 1

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From Taíno taino (lord, noble, foremost).

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Taino (plural Tainos or Taino)

  1. A member of a group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
    • 2015, Donald H Sullivan, Turnbull's Slaves: A Minorcan Story - Plus Taino, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
      He was accepted as a Taino now and must adapt to their ways.
    • 2016, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 24:
      Following the birth of a baby, Tainos would perform a naming ritual where the child would be pronounced as a Taino and a human being (Keegan, 1997).
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Taino

  1. Their Arawakan language, now extinct.
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Etymology 2

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From Italian Taino.

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Taino

  1. A municipality in Lombardy, Italy.

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Italian

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Proper noun

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Taino ?

  1. the municipality of Taino