meco

See also: MECO, meço, and meco-

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mēcum (probably through Old Italian conmeco, from Latin cum mēcum).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeko/, [ˈmeːko]
  • Hyphenation: ‧co

Preposition

meco

  1. (archaic, literary) with me
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto X, p. 155 vv. 55-56:
      Dintorno mi guardò, come talento ¶ avesse di scoprir s'altri era meco; […]
      Round me he gazed, as if solicitude ¶ he had to see if some one else were with me; […]
    • 1472, Giusto de’ Conti, La bella mano, Giannalberto Tumermani (1750), p. 122:
      Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.
      My heart gets angry with me, and I with it.

See also

References

  1. Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams


Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of chichimeca

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeko/

Adjective

meco (feminine singular meca, masculine plural mecos, feminine plural mecas)

  1. (dated, Mexico) brown-colored

Noun

meco m (plural mecos)

  1. (vulgar, Mexico) semen.
    Synonym: lefa (Spain)
  2. (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…

References

  • meco. Asíhablamos.com
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