orco
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Orcus, orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).
Noun
editorco m (plural orcos)
References
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editorco m (plural orchi, feminine orchessa)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion
- ^ orco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editLatin
editNoun
editorcō
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Orco, from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro and orc.
The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English orc.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editorco m (plural orcos)
- (poetic, literary) hell; underworld
- (fantasy, mythology) orc
- Synonym: orc
- 2007 July 7, Marcelo Rodrigues et al., “Raças Selvagens” (chapter 6.4), in Tagmar II – Livro de Criaturas[1], 2.2.0 edition, Projeto Tagmar 2, archived from the original on 2024-02-09, page 41, column 1:
- Orcos são seres de aparência humana, porém incrivelmente feios, com braços grandes, corpo peludo, rosto deformado, dentes caninos inferiores protuberantes e ligeiramente corcundas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
edit- “orco”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “orco”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “orco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos). Doublet of huerco.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editorco m (plural orcos)
Noun
editorco m (plural orcos, feminine orca, feminine plural orcas)
- male orca, killer whale
Further reading
edit- “orco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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