meco
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeko/, [ˈmeːko]
- Hyphenation: mé‧co
Preposition
meco
- (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; […]
- Dintorno mi guardò, come talento ¶ avesse di scoprir s'altri era meco; […]
- 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.
- Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto X, p. 155 vv. 55-56:
References
- Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
Spanish
Etymology
Shortening of chichimeca
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeko/
Adjective
meco (feminine singular meca, masculine plural mecos, feminine plural mecas)
- (dated, Mexico) brown-colored
Related terms
Noun
meco m (plural mecos)
- (vulgar, Mexico) semen.
- Synonym: lefa (Spain)
- (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…
- 2006, Yolanda Lastra de Suárez, Los otomíes: su lengua y su historia, UNAM →ISBN, page 358
References
- meco. Asíhablamos.com
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