orco
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Orcus, orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).
Noun[edit]
orco m (plural orcos)
References[edit]
- “orco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orco m (plural orchi, feminine orchessa)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion
- ^ orco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
orcō
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Nominalization of Orco, from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro.
The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English ork.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orco m (plural orcos)
- (poetic, literary) hell; underworld
- (fantasy, mythology) orc
- Synonym: orc
- 2007 July 7, Marcelo Rodrigues et al., “Raças Selvagens” (chapter 6.4), in Tagmar II – Livro de Criaturas[1], 2.2.0 edition, Projeto Tagmar 2, archived from the original on 2024-02-09, page 41, column 1:
- Orcos são seres de aparência humana, porém incrivelmente feios, com braços grandes, corpo peludo, rosto deformado, dentes caninos inferiores protuberantes e ligeiramente corcundas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “orco” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “orco” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “orco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “orco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “orco” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “orco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos). Doublet of huerco.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
orco m (plural orcos)
Noun[edit]
orco m (plural orcos, feminine orca, feminine plural orcas)
- male orca, killer whale
Further reading[edit]
- “orco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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