bambino

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Bambino

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Italian bambino.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (General American) IPA(key): /bæmˈbinoʊ/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

bambino (plural bambinos or bambini)

  1. A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. [from 18th c.]
    • 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
      These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.

References[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bambino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic bambo for the first stammerings of children, plus -ino (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bamˈbi.no/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: bam‧bì‧no

Noun[edit]

bambino m (plural bambini, feminine bambina, diminutive bambinétto or bambinùccio, augmentative bambinóne, pejorative bambinàccio, endearing bambinèllo)

  1. child, baby, toddler, tot (male or of unspecified gender)
  2. (baby) boy, young boy
  3. (zoology) breed of short hairless cats

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: bambino
  • French: bambin

See also[edit]