porco

See also: Porco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾko̝/

Noun

porco m (plural porcos)

1. pig
2. (figurative) an untidy person

Adjective

1. untidy, unclean, dirty
2. disgusting

Synonyms

• cocho
• bácoro, larego (young)

Derived terms

• porcallada (“dirty place; disgusting action”)
• porcallán (“dirty person”)
• porco bravo (“boar”)
• porco celta (a local breed of pigs)
• porco do mar (“mereswine, porpoise”)
• porco espiño (“hedgehog”)
• porco teixo (“badger”)
• porqueira (“pigsty”)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “porco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Interlingua

Noun

porco (plural porcos)

1. pig, pork

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ko/, [ˈpɔr̺ko]
• Rhymes: -ɔrko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porci)

1. pig, pork

Synonyms

• maiale
• suino

Related terms

• porca

Adjective

1. terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)

Anagrams

• copro, corpo

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) porcō

1. dative singular of porcus
2. ablative singular of porcus

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Portuguese

porco

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoχ.ku/, /ˈpoɾ.ku/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpoɹ.ku/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpoɻ.ko/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpox.kʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/
• Hyphenation: por‧co

Noun

porco m (plural s, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
2. pork; swineflesh
3. (derogatory) pig (dirty or slovenly person)

Synonyms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.
• (dirty or slovenly person): porcalhão

Coordinate terms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

Derived terms

• espírito de porco
• porco-bravo
• porco-d'água
• porco-da-índia
• porco-da-terra
• porco-do-mar
• porco-do-mato
• porco-espinho
• porco-formigueiro
• porco-marinho
• porco-montês
• porco-veado

 

Related terms

• emporcalhado
• emporcalhar
• porca
• porcalhão
• porcamente
• porcaria
• porcino
• porquear
• porqueira
• porqueiro

 

Adjective

1. (of a person) filthy; slovenly; unkempt
2. (of an object) coarse (of inferior quality)

Synonyms

• (filthy): emporcalhado
• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Antonyms

• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: porku
• Papiamentu: porko
• → Guaraní: poryko
• → Kaingang: porko