meschino

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic مِسْكِين‎ (miskīn) from Aramaic מסכןא‎ (meskēnā), derived from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕 (muškēnu, “villein, indigent; class of people dependent or reliant on others, unable to provide supplies on their own; commoner”). The Akkadian term is first recorded in early dynastic Sumer. Compare French mesquin

Adjective

meschino (feminine singular meschina, masculine plural meschini, feminine plural meschine)

  1. wretched
  2. mean, sleazy
  3. narrow-minded
  4. petty
  5. poor (used to express commiseration in Liguria)

Noun

meschino m (plural meschini)

  1. wretch
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