meco
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Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
meco m (plural mecos)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
meco m (plural mecos, feminine meca) (Ibiza)
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
meco (Mallorca)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin mēcum (probably through Old Italian conmeco), from Latin cum mēcum.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
meco
- (archaic, literary) with me
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 55–56; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Dintorno mi guardò, come talento
avesse di veder s’altri era meco- He looked around me, as if he wanted to see if someone else were with me
- c. 1440, Giusto de' Conti, La bella mano [The beautiful hand]; republished in La bella mano di Giusto de' Conti romano, con una raccolta di rime d'antichi toscani[3], revised and expanded edition, Verona: Giannalberto Tummermani, 1750, page 122:
- E quando penſo alla mia ardente face,
Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.- [E, quando penso alla mia ardente face,
il cor meco s'adira, ed io con lui.] - And when I think about my burning light, my heart becomes angry with me, and I with it.
- [E, quando penso alla mia ardente face,
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortening of chichimeca.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
meco (feminine meca, masculine plural mecos, feminine plural mecas)
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
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…
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References[edit]
- meco. Asíhablamos.com
Further reading[edit]
- “meco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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