El Niño

See also: El Nino

English

Alternative forms

• El Nino

Etymology

From Spanish El Niño (literally “The Little Boy”), referring to the Christ child, as the phenomenon is observed around Christmas time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛl ˈniːn.joʊ/

Noun

El Niño (plural El Niños)

1. An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador every four to seven years that causes changes in local and regional climate, associated with a positive anomaly.
   • 2007 May 23, in the Houston Chronicle:

     Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.

   • 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The odd weather phenomenon that many blame for the suffering here — the drought and sudden storm pattern known as El Niño — is expected to become more frequent as the planet warms.

Coordinate terms

• La Niña
• super-Niño

Translations

a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厄爾尼諾／厄尔尼诺 (zh) (È'ěrnínuò), 厄爾尼諾現象／厄尔尼诺现象 (zh) (È'ěrnínuò xiànxiàng), 聖嬰現象／圣婴现象 (zh) (Shèng Yīng xiànxiàng)

• Czech: El Niňo (cs) m or n
• Esperanto: El-Ninjo
• Finnish: El Niño
• French: El Niño m
• German: El Niño m
• Greek: Ελ Νίνιο (el) n (El Nínio)
• Japanese: エルニーニョ (ja) (Erunīnyo)
• Marathi: एल निन्यो (el ninyo)
• Persian: ال نینو‎ (el nino)
• Portuguese: El Niño (pt) m
• Russian: Эль-Ни́ньо (ru) (Elʹ-Nínʹo)
• Spanish: El Niño (es) m
• Thai: เอลนีโญ (eel-nii-yôo)
• Turkish: El Niño

Further reading

• El Niño on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lonnie, on line, on-line, online

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish El Niño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛlˈninjoː/

Proper noun

El Niño m

1. (meteorology) El Niño

Related terms

• La Niña

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish El Niño.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɛwˈnĩ.ɲu/ [ˌɛʊ̯ˈnĩ.j̃u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɛwˈnĩ.ɲu/ [ˌɛʊ̯ˈnĩ.j̃u]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɛwˈni.ɲo/ [ˌɛʊ̯ˈni.ɲo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɛlˈni.ɲu/ [ˌɛɫˈni.ɲu]

Proper noun

El Niño m (plural El Niños)

1. (meteorology) El Niño (a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /el ˈniɲo/ [el ˈni.ɲo]
• Syllabification: El Ni‧ño

Proper noun

El Niño m

1. the Christ child
2. (climatology) El Niño (ocean current)

Turkish

Proper noun

El Niño (definite accusative El Niño'yu, plural El Niño'lar)

1. (meteorology) El Niño (ocean current)