mío

/ˈmio/ · A1 · pron

mine

mío = me + o: the thing that belongs to me, from Latin meus

Mío comes from Latin meus, the same root as English me, my and mine. The m- is the first-person marker across all of them. It follows the noun or stands alone: un amigo mío = a friend of mine; es mío = it is mine.

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