paco
English
Noun
- (archaic) alpaca
- An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
- 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.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpat͡so/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -at͡so
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.t͡so/
Latin
Etymology
From pāx (“peace”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.koː/
Inflection
Related terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: pacur
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: împăca, păca
- Franco-Provençal: payér
- Italian: pacare, pagare
- → Alemannic German: päge
- Old French: paiier, paier
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: pagar
- Old Occitan: pagar
- Old Portuguese: pagar
- Old Spanish: pagar
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: pacare, pagae, pagai, pagare
- Sicilian: pagari
- Venetian: pagar
References
- 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, 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)
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀧𑀘𑁄 (Brahmi script)
- पचो (Devanagari script)
- পচো (Bengali script)
- පචො (Sinhalese script)
- ပစော (Burmese script)
- ปโจ (Thai script)
- ᨷᨧᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
- បចោ (Khmer script)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpako/
Etymology 1
Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”)
Adjective
paco (feminine singular paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)
- reddish (color)
Noun
paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
- (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) male paca
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
- (colloquial, derogatory, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá) police officer
Noun
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