ninho

ninho m (plural ninhos, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of niño

• “ninho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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From Old Galician-Portuguese *nio, *nĩo (“nest”), from Latin nīdus (“nest”), from Proto-Italic *nizdos (“nest”), from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”).

Compare Galician niño, Spanish nido, Catalan niu, French nid and Italian nido.

• Rhymes: -iɲu, (Brazil) -ĩɲu
• Hyphenation: ni‧nho

ninho m (plural ninhos)

1. nest (bird-built structure)
2. (by extension) nest (place used by any animal for depositing eggs and hatching young)

   Synonyms: covil, toca

3. (figurative, endearing) home

   Synonyms: abrigo, castelo, lar

4. (Brazil, colloquial) Ellipsis of leite ninho (“powdered milk”).
   • 2016 November 6, Yuri Ramires, quoting Emilaine Magnanti, “Bióloga "se encontra" na confeitaria e cria 30 tipos de brigadeiro”, in MidiaNews‎^[1], Cuiabá, archived from the original on 2016-11-07:

     “Os que mais saem são o brigadeiro tradicional, de ninho com nutella, de churros e beijinho”, lembrou.

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• Kabuverdianu: ninhu

• “ninho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “ninho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “ninho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025