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单词 menina
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meninan.

Brit. /mɛˈniːnə/, /məˈniːnə/, U.S. /mɛˈninə/, /məˈninə/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish menina; Portuguese menina.
Etymology: < Spanish menina lady-in-waiting (16th cent.) and its etymon Portuguese menina girl, lass (13th cent. in form meninha), further etymology uncertain and disputed. Compare French menine (1606), Italian menina (16th cent.), both < Spanish.The corresponding Portuguese masculine form, menino boy, also occurs as a loanword in the text cited in quot. 1787.
In Spanish and Portuguese contexts: a young girl; (sometimes) spec. a young lady-in-waiting.
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1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xviii. 76 The Infanta is with her Meninas and Ladies of honor.
a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) ii. 85 I take't he writes a Comedy For the Meninas.
1787 W. Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 10 June (1954) 72 I passed half an hour not disagreeably in talking of music, gardens, roses and devotions with the menina.
1987 A. Danto Encounters & Reflections (1991) 125 We see her terrified face reflected, beyond a puddle of vomit and next to strewn pastries, in a pair of sunglasses, like a bulimic menina.
1988 Mod. Painters Autumn 34/1 The monumental female type that Rego uses..for all the paintings of meninas is very like the type favoured by Artemisia Gentileschi.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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