beco

See also: BECO, béco, and becó

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɛ.ko]

Verb

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar (“to subsidize (a student), to give a stipend to”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbe.ko]

Verb

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar (“to snooze, to nap”)

Istriot

Etymology 1

Word of uncertain etymology: some favor borrowing from German Bock (“male goat”), or becch, a word imitating the bleating of the goat; others propose an onomatopoeic base *bek and a pre-Roman Alpine substrate reflected in the Latin ibicem (“wild goat”); still others propose an origin in Latin ībex expanded to Vulgar Latin *ibeccus.

Noun

beco m

1. beak
2. ram
3. adulterer

Etymology 2

From the upper sense, due to its agility.

Noun

beco m

1. grasshopper, locust
2. (figurative) mobile, agile

References

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, pages 115-116
• Cergna, Sandro (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC

Portuguese

Etymology

Possibly from Latin via + -eco, cf. Italian vico.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ku/

• Hyphenation: be‧co

Noun

beco m (plural becos)

1. alley

   Synonyms: ruela, travessa, viela

Derived terms

• beco sem saída
• bequinho

Further reading

• “beco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “beco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeko/ [ˈbe.ko]
• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: be‧co

Verb

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar

Venetan

Noun

beco m (plural bechi)

1. beak, bill (of a bird)