mico
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
mico (plural micos)
- A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.
Usage notes[edit]
- The name was originally applied to an albino variety.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Mico melanurus): black-tailed marmoset
References[edit]
- “mico”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mico m (plural micos)
Further reading[edit]
- “mico” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mico”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mico” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mico” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to shimmer”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.koː/, [ˈmɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ko/, [ˈmiːko]
Verb[edit]
micō (present infinitive micāre, perfect active micuī or micāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to vibrate, quiver
- to twinkle, glitter, flash, gleam, beam, shine, to be bright
- to tremble
- to beat (of the pulse)
Conjugation[edit]
- The normal Classical perfect is micuī. Perfect micāvī is found extremely rarely in Classical use, but is common in Medieval Latin.
- There is a supine mictum, found in Priscian, but it is not in use.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: ammiccare
References[edit]
- “mico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
- the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “mico”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 86
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: mi‧co
Etymology 1[edit]
From a Cariban language, likely via Spanish mico.[1][2]
Noun[edit]
mico m (plural micos)
- (Brazil) any of several very small and long-tailed monkeys, such as capuchins and marmosets
- Synonym: sagui (but some make a distinction between saguis and micos)
- (Minho) Devil
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Chinese: 搣咕
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Short for mico-preto, a children’s card game where the players have to amass pairs of matching cards, and the card that traditionally depicts a small monkey is the only one without a pair.
Noun[edit]
mico m (plural micos)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
mico
References[edit]
- ^ “mico” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “mico” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Cumanagoto [Term?].
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mico m (plural micos)
- a monkey with a prehensile tail
- (familiar) child
- an ugly person
- (Nicaragua) vulva
- (coastal Ecuador) a blonde person
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: mico
- → Chayuco Mixtec: micu
- → Isthmus Zapotec: migu
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: mi̱coj
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mico
Further reading[edit]
- “mico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tetelcingo Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
mico
References[edit]
- Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 30, 141
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