meco
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Etymology 1 edit
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meco m (plural mecos)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
meco m (plural mecos, feminine meca) (Ibiza)
Etymology 3 edit
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meco (Mallorca)
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Etymology edit
From Latin mēcum (probably through Old Italian conmeco), from Latin cum mēcum.[1]
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meco
- (archaic, literary) with me
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 55–56; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Dintorno mi guardò, come talento
avesse di veder s’altri era meco- He looked around me, as if he wanted to see if someone else were with me
- c. 1440, Giusto de' Conti, La bella mano [The beautiful hand]; republished in La bella mano di Giusto de' Conti romano, con una raccolta di rime d'antichi toscani[3], revised and expanded edition, Verona: Giannalberto Tummermani, 1750, page 122:
- E quando penſo alla mia ardente face,
Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.- [E, quando penso alla mia ardente face,
il cor meco s'adira, ed io con lui.] - And when I think about my burning light, my heart becomes angry with me, and I with it.
- [E, quando penso alla mia ardente face,
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- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
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Etymology edit
Shortening of chichimeca.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
meco (feminine meca, masculine plural mecos, feminine plural mecas)
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Noun edit
meco m (plural mecos)
- (vulgar, Mexico) semen
- Synonym: lefa (Spain)
- (Mexico) a small child, specifically an indigenous one
- 2006, Yolanda Lastra de Suárez, Los otomíes: su lengua y su historia, UNAM, →ISBN, page 358:
- Dos días antes de que termine el carnaval aparecen Comanches y Mecos. Los Mecos son niños pequeños como de siete años y los Comanches son jóvenes de entre 18 y 25 años. Los Mecos andan sin camisa y se pintan con lodo, ceniza…
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References edit
- meco. Asíhablamos.com
Further reading edit
- “meco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014