pico
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpitso/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pi‧co
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pico, from Vulgar Latin *piccus, ultimately of Germanic origin or either from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiko̝/
Noun
pico m (plural picos)
- peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)
- (by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak
- sharp tip of anything
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30:
- Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.
- And she gathered from the best, more noble and virtuous herbs, a quantity, together with its roots, uprooting them with the help of the tip of a sickle
- Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30:
- thorn
- Synonym: espiña
- pickaxe
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:
- Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos
- They didn't had there ladders or pickaxes
- Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos
- Synonym: picaraña
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:
Derived terms
- Picato
- picaraña
- Pico
- Picón
- Picoto
- Picoucelo
- Picouso
- picouto
- Picouzo
References
- “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “pico” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “pico” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pico” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingue
Latin
References
- pico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pico in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Etymology
Back-formation from picar.
Noun
pico m (plural picos)
- peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)
- Esclaram até o pico.
- They climbed to the top.
- (by extension) a high mountain that ends in a peak
- O Pico da Neblina é a montanha mais alta do Brasil.
- Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in Brazil.
- (figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)
- sharp tip of anything
- tart or acid flavour
- zest; enthusiasm; excitement
- instrument for cutting stone
- picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kg or 110.2 lb)
- (informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage
- (Brazil) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot
- (Brazil, informal) injected dosage
- (Portugal, derogatory) homosexual man
Synonyms
Derived terms
- horário de pico (rush hour)
- e pico (and a bit more)
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiko/
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. It was likely later influenced phonetically by picar. Compare English beak.
Noun
pico m (plural picos)
- beak (of a bird)
- sharp point
- pick, pickaxe
- peak, summit (of a mountain)
- a bit, a little
- El vuelo dura tres horas y pico. ― The flight lasts a little over three hours.
- (zoology) crest
- (colloquial, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica) penis
- (colloquial, Bolivia, Colombia) kiss
- (colloquial) trap; gob (mouth)
- ¡Cierra el pico! ― Shut your trap!
Synonyms
- (peak): cima, cumbre, cúspide
- (penis): See Thesaurus:pene.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Further reading
- “pico” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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