porco
See also: Porco
Galician
Etymology
From Old 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)
- pig
- Synonym: cocho
- (figurative) an untidy person
Adjective
porco m (feminine singular porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas)
- untidy, unclean, dirty
- filthy
Derived terms
- porcallada (“dirty place; disgusting action”)
- porcallán (“dirty person”)
- porco bravo (“boar”)
- porco fero (“boar”)
- porco montés (“boar”)
- porco celta (a local breed of pigs)
- porco do mar (“mereswine, porpoise”)
- porco espiño (“hedgehog”)
- porco teixo (“badger”)
- porqueira (“pigsty”)
References
- “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “porco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “porco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua
Noun
porco (plural porcos)
- pig, pork
Italian
Etymology
From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.ko/
- Rhymes: -ɔrko
- Hyphenation: pòr‧co
Noun
porco m (plural porci)
- pig, pork
- Synonyms: maiale, suino
Related terms
- porca
Adjective
porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porchi, feminine plural porche)
- terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)
Derived terms
- porcamente
Anagrams
- copro, copro-, corpo
Latin
Noun
porcō
- dative/ablative singular of porcus
Portuguese
porco
Etymology
From Old Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoh.ku]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoχ.ku]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpoɻ.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/
- Hyphenation: por‧co
Noun
porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)
- pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
- pork; swineflesh
- (derogatory) pig (dirty or slovenly person)
- Synonym: porcalhão
Synonyms
- (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.
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
porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)
- (of a person) filthy; slovenly; unkempt
- Synonym: emporcalhado
- (of an object) coarse (of inferior quality)
Synonyms
- (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.
Antonyms
- (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: porku
- Papiamentu: porko
- → Guaraní: poryko
- → Kaingang: porko