bambino

From Italian bambino.

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

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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.

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Bambino”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 645, column 1.

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

• IPA^(key): /bamˈbi.no/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: bam‧bì‧no

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

• bambino soldato
• bimbo (“baby”)

• bambola (“doll”)

• → English: bambino
• → French: bambin

• ragazzo