pescoço

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Spanish pescoço (Modern Spanish pescuezo), from *poscoço, from Latin post + Old Spanish coço.

Noun

pescoço m (plural pescoços)

1. neck
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Com̃o Telegomus chegou hu era Vlixas. ⁊ Com̃o pelejou cõ os porteyros” (chapter 513), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 192v:

     Et telegonus ſe aſanou entonce malam̃t. Et ſe el ouuera en q̃n ſe eſforzaſe el os fezera malandants̃. P̃o cõ todo eſeto nõ lls̃ lo podo mays ſofrer. Et nõ nos ameaçou muyto. mais logo fuj a hũ dels. Et doulle hũa tal punada q̃lle britou o oſo do peſcoço. Et dou cõ el morto en tr̃ra a ſeus pẽeſ.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Fala: pescozu
• Galician: pescozo
• Portuguese: pescoço

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pescoço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pescoço”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

pescoço

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pescoço, from Old Spanish pescoço (Modern Spanish pescuezo), from *poscoço, from Latin post + Old Spanish coço.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pesˈko.su/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pesˈko.su/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /peʃˈko.su/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pesˈko.so/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨʃˈko.su/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pes‧co‧ço

Noun

pescoço m (plural pescoços, metaphonic)

1. neck (part of body)

Derived terms

• pescocinho
• pescoçudo

Further reading

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