menine
Portuguese, noun
menine is spelled M-E-N-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese, the 218,398th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menine is a Portuguese neuter noun meaning “a gender-neutral form of menino/menina” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forma sem gênero de menino”.
What does menine mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutera gender-neutral form of menino/menina
- 2
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Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. forma sem gênero de menino
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of menine
- menines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is menine in Portuguese?
menine appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).