monco
See also: mönco
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps a blend of manco + tronco.[1] Compare Sicilian mugnu.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
monco (feminine monca, masculine plural monchi, feminine plural monche)
- maimed, mutilated
- Synonym: mutilato
- (uncommon) crippled
- Synonym: storpio
- (figurative) incomplete
- Synonyms: mozzo, smozzicato, tronco
- wrong, incorrect
- Synonyms: manchevole, errato
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 28–30; 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:
- Però disse ’l maestro: “Se tu tronchi / qualche fraschetta d’una d’este piante, / li pensier c’hai si faran tutti monchi”.
- Therefore the master said: "If thou break off some little spray from any of these trees, the thoughts thou hast will wholly be made vain."
Derived terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- monco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin muccus, a variant of mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Doublet of muco.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mon‧co
Noun edit
monco m (plural moncos)