porco

See also: Porco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾko̝/

Noun

porco m (plural porcos)

1. pig

   Synonym: cocho

2. (figurative) an untidy person

Adjective

porco m (feminine singular porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas)

1. untidy, unclean, dirty
2. filthy

Derived terms

• porcallada (“dirty place; disgusting action”)
• porcallán (“dirty person”)
• porco bravo (“boar”)
• porco fero (“boar”)
• porco montés (“boar”)
• porco celta (a local breed of pigs)
• porco do mar (“mereswine, porpoise”)
• porco espiño (“hedgehog”)
• porco teixo (“badger”)
• porqueira (“pigsty”)

References

• “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “porco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

porco (plural porcos)

1. pig, pork

Italian

Etymology

From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔrko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porci)

1. pig, pork

   Synonyms: maiale, suino

Related terms

• porca

Adjective

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porchi, feminine plural porche)

1. terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)

Derived terms

• porcamente

Anagrams

• copro, copro-, corpo

Latin

Noun

porcō

1. dative/ablative singular of porcus

Portuguese

porco

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoh.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoh.ku]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoχ.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɻ.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/

• Hyphenation: por‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
2. pork; swineflesh
3. (derogatory) pig (dirty or slovenly person)

   Synonym: porcalhão

Synonyms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

Coordinate terms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

Derived terms

• espírito de porco
• ir com os porcos
• porco-bravo
• porco-d'água
• porco-da-índia
• porco-da-terra
• porco-do-mar
• porco-do-mato
• porco-espinho
• porco-formigueiro
• porco-marinho
• porco-montês
• porco-veado

 

Related terms

• emporcalhado
• emporcalhar
• porca
• porcalhão
• porcamente
• porcaria
• porcino
• porquear
• porqueira
• porqueiro

 

Adjective

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. (of a person) filthy; slovenly; unkempt

   Synonym: emporcalhado

2. (of an object) coarse (of inferior quality)

Synonyms

• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Antonyms

• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: porku
• Papiamentu: porko
• → Guaraní: poryko
• → Kaingang: porko

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin porcus.

Noun

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas)

1. (obsolete) pig

References

• “porco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014