carco

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See also: carcò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.ko/
  • Rhymes: -arko
  • Hyphenation: càr‧co

Noun

carco m (plural carchi)

  1. (poetic, literary, archaic) Alternative form of carico (load)

Adjective

carco (feminine carca, masculine plural carchi, feminine plural carche)

  1. (poetic, literary, archaic) Alternative form of carico (loaded)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ed una lupa, che di tutte bramesembiava carca ne la sua magrezza, ¶ e molte genti già viver grame,
      And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings seemed to be laden in her meagreness, ⁠and many folk has caused to live forlorn!

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

From carc (care) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

Verb

carco (first-person singular present carcaf)

  1. (South Wales, colloquial) to take care, to care
    Synonym: gofalu
  2. (South Wales, colloquial) to babysit
    Synonym: gwarchod

Conjugation

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
carco garco ngharco charco
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “carco”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies