bambini

[bam-bee-noh, bahm-; It. bahm-bee-naw]

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noun, plural -nos, Italian, -ni

[-nee] .

a small child or baby.

an image of the infant Jesus.

Origin:
1755–65; < Italian, equivalent to bamb(o) childish (perhaps orig. nursery word) + -ino diminutive suffix

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Word Origin & History

bambino

"little child," 1761, from It., "baby," a dim. of bambo "simple" (cf. L. bambalio "dolt," Gk. bambainein "to stammer").

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