mijo

mijo (plural mijos)

1. Alternative form of miho.
   • 2006 December 12, Juan Campos, “Staff Sgt. Juan Campos”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 22 March 2008, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2024:

     but hopefully ill get to hear from you pretty soon.*muah* and hugs. tell mijo im proud of him too! love always, your other half

   • 2023 May 10, Andrew Baggarly, “Casey Schmitt homers for Giants in MLB debut: ‘It’s surreal. It’s amazing’”, in The Athletic‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 February 2026:

     Casey asked to speak to his grandmother. His parents put her on the phone. “We told her, ‘Casey wants to tell you something,’” Dan Schmitt said. “He told her he really wanted her to come to San Francisco. She hasn’t been out of the house in three years. She has health challenges, medications. But when they started talking, it got pretty emotional. She said, ‘You know, mijo, I’ll be there.’ And here we are.”

   • 2024 May 1, John Paul Brammer, quotee, “Emily Ratajkowski Can Take Care of Herself, but a Little Help Would Be Nice”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     I tried to come out a couple times to my abuela, but one time, I said, “I think I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “You know, mijo, Rachel Maddow is a handsome woman.”

     (Can we archive this URL?)

• Rhymes: -iʒu
• Hyphenation: mi‧jo

Deverbal from mijar.

mijo m (plural mijos)

1. (mildly vulgar) piss

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urina

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mijo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mijar

• “mijo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mijo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mijo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mijo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈmixo/ [ˈmi.xo]
• Rhymes: -ixo
• Syllabification: mi‧jo

Inherited from Latin milium (“millet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of millo.

mijo m (plural mijos)

1. millet

Contraction of mi +‎ hijo, literally “my son”.

• m'ijo

mijo m (plural mijos, feminine mija, feminine plural mijas)

1. (colloquial, Chile) darling
2. (colloquial, Mexico, Colombia) friend, guy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tío

• English: miho

• “mijo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.d͡ʒo/

mijo

1. fear

• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics