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mezquino

Inherited from Old Spanish mesquino (“poor; beggar, homeless”), also attested in the medieval period as mezquino, from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”). The sense of “stingy” developed in the early modern period. Compare Portuguese mesquinho.

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