bambino

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bam=bi=no

CIDE DICTIONARY

bambino, n. [It., a little boy, fr. bambo silly; cf. Gr. bambali`zein, bambai`nein, to chatter.].

•  A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  George Herman Ruth ("Babe" Ruth), the baseball player; -- usu. in the form “the bambino”.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bambino, n. (pl. bambini) colloq. a young (esp. Italian) child.

Etymology

It., dimin. of bambo silly

ROGET THESAURUS

bambino

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.