Polyglot Dictionary

meninice

/meniˈnisi/

a noun C1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as meninices

Meaning

  1. childhood

    • Na meninice, corria.

      In childhood, I ran.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

infância

meninice is more colloquial and childlike, and can carry a mildly negative "childish" connotation; infância is the neutral standard word — both mean "childhood."

Similar in other languages

German

Kindheit

Kindheit is the German word for the same thing — both mean "childhood."

Spanish

infancia

infancia is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "childhood."

Spanish

niñez

niñez is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "childhood."

Practice

1 What does meninice mean?

2 Fill the gap: Na ___, corria.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches meninice?

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