adjective/meθˈkino/
miserly, mean, stingy; petty, small-minded
“Era un padre mezquino, y a sus hijos no les compraba dulces no por salud sino por ahorrar.” — He was a stingy father, who wouldn't buy his children sweets, not for their health but to save money.
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.