Bambinoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bæmˈbinoʊ/

名詞

bambino (複数形 bambinos または bambini)

1. A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. [from 18th c.]
   • 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:

     These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.

参照

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Bambino”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 645, column 1.