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From Old Galician-Portuguese pequeno, ultimately probably from Vulgar Latin pĭtĭnnus, probably related to a Celtic root (compare Irish beag, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos, "small"). Cognate with Portuguese pequeno and Spanish pequeño.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peˈkeno/ [peˈke.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: pe‧que‧no

pequeno (feminine pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas)

1. little, short, small; smaller

   Home pequeno, fol de veleno

   A little man, a bag of poison

   (proverb)

2. young; younger

   Este é o meu irmán pequeno.

   This one here is my younger brother.

• pequeneiro (“smallish”)
• pequeniño (“very small”)

• pequerrecho

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pequeno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pequeno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pequeno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pequeno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pequeno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese pequeno, probably from Vulgar Latin *peccuinnus. Compare Spanish pequeño, French petit and Italian piccolo.

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈkẽ.nʷ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧que‧no

pequeno (feminine pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas, comparable, comparative menor, superlative pequeníssimo)

1. small

   Antonym: grande

• Kabuverdianu: pikinóti

pequeno m (plural pequenos, feminine pequena, feminine plural pequenas)

1. (colloquial) child