different between gino vs dino

English

Etymology

From the Italian forename Gino.

Pronunciation

Noun

gino (plural ginos)

1. (US, Canada, slang, derogatory) A person of Mediterranean (especially Italian) descent, stereotypically regarded as shallow and materialistic.
   • 200, "[+//Tania//-]", "They're not going there just to get high" (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.rave)

     Not all ginos and ginas are the same, just becuz you've come across a couple you hate, doesn't mean you hate them all. ... Where I live it is probably 99% ginos and ginas and I get along with them just fine, in fact, my boyfriend is a gino.

See also

• Guido, guido
• Guidette, guidette

Anagrams

• Gion, Goin, go in, goin, goin', ingo, ogin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?no?/
• Rhymes: -a?n??

Noun

dino (plural dinos)

1. (informal) dinosaur.

Anagrams

• Dion, Indo-, NOID, Odin, do in, doin, doin', indo, nido-, nodi

Catalan

Verb

dino

1. first-person singular present indicative form of dinar

Dutch

Etymology

Likely borrowed from English dino. Equivalent to a clipping of dinosaurus. The term became especially prominent after the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, but predated the film by at least one or two years.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.no?/
• Hyphenation: di?no
• Rhymes: -ino?

Noun

dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)

1. (informal) A dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria. [from late 20th c.]

Synonyms

• dinosauriër (formal)
• dinosaurus

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dino/, [?dino?]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: di?no

Noun

dino

1. (informal) dino

Declension

Anagrams

• nido

French

Etymology

From dinosaure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.no/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: dinos

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. dino

Related terms

• dinosaure

Javanese

Noun

dino

1. Nonstandard spelling of dina.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?di.nu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d??i.nu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d??i.no/

Etymology 1

Adjective

dino m (feminine singular dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas, comparable)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Alternative form of digno

Etymology 2

Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)

   Synonym: dinossauro

Spanish

Adjective

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of digno