paco
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paco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)
- (archaic) An alpaca.
- An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
- 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:
- Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.
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paco f
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paco (accusative singular pacon, plural pacoj, accusative plural pacojn)
- peace
- Antonym: malpaco
- Post tri longaj jaroj la popolo soporis pacon. ― After three long years, the people yearned for peace.
- La deziro al paco sidas en ĉiu homa koro. ― The desire for peace resides in each human heart.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.
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paco (uncountable)
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.
Noun edit
paco m (plural pachi)
- Synonym of alpaca
Further reading edit
- paco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
paco
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *pakō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, fasten”); or, a denominal formed from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (“forming verbs”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.koː/, [ˈpäːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ko/, [ˈpäːko]
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pācō (present infinitive pācāre, perfect active pācāvī, supine pācātum); first conjugation
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- Eastern Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
- → Italian: pacare
References edit
- “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- paco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
- (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
- (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
- (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
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paco
- second-person singular imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)
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paco f
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”).
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paco (feminine paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)
- reddish (color)
Noun edit
paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
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- → Italian: paco
Etymology 2 edit
See paca.
Noun edit
paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
Etymology 3 edit
Unknown; possibly related to pacífico (“peaceful”), (pejoratively) referring to the police as a peacekeeping force.
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paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
References edit
- Huang, Y. (2016). Learning Spanish Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics. United Kingdom: Xlibris US.
Etymology 4 edit
Of imitative origin (presumably of gunfire).
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paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
- (colloquial, obsolete, Spain) During Spanish occupation in Africa, a Moroccan sniper
References edit
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Etymology 5 edit
Of unclear origin. Possibly a shortening of pasta de cocaína, or a corruption of basuco (“cocaine paste”).
Noun edit
paco m (plural pacos)
- cocaine paste
- (Spain, Argentina, recreational drug) a cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals
Further reading edit
- “paco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014