polico

Esperanto

kanada polico

Etymology

Borrowed from English and French police, Italian polizia, Polish policja, Russian поли́ция (polícija), German Polizei. First attested in 1889.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈlit͡so/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -it͡so
• Syllabification: po‧li‧co

Noun

polico (uncountable, accusative policon)

2. police, constabulary
   • 2025 November 12, Thomas Bormann, “La nekredebla viv-historio de Dany Dattel”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 December 2025:

     En 1943 la nazia polico forportis la familion Dattel el Berlino.

     In 1943, the Nazi police took the Dattel family away from Berlin.

Derived terms

adjectives

• polica (“relating to the police”)

nouns

• kaŝpolicisto (“plainclothes police officer”)
• policano (“police officer”)
• policejo (“police station”)
• policestro (“police chief”)
• policisto (“police officer”)

Further reading

Monolingual dictionaries

• “polico”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “polico”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
• Eichholz, Rüdiger (1988), “polico”, in Esperanta Bildvortaro, →ISBN, page 446
• Benson, William (1932), “polic-o”, in Universala Esperanto-Metodo‎^[2], →OL, page 442

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈlit͡so/

Noun

polico (uncountable)

1. police

Derived terms

• policestro (“police chief”)
• policisto (“police officer”)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

polico (Cyrillic spelling полицо)

1. vocative singular of polica

Slovene

Noun

polico

1. accusative/instrumental singular of polica