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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]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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]From Orco, from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro and orc.
The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English orc.
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 (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “orco” in Dicio - Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “orco” in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “orco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
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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