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Italian
Etymology
Perhaps a blend of manco + tronco.[1] Compare Sicilian mugnu.
Pronunciation
Adjective
monco (feminine monca, masculine plural monchi, feminine plural monche)
- maimed, mutilated
- Synonym: mutilato
- (uncommon) crippled
- Synonym: storpio
- (figurative) incomplete
- Synonyms: mozzo, smozzicato, tronco
- wrong, incorrect
- Synonyms: manchevole, errato
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 28–30; 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:Però disse ’l maestro: “Se tu tronchi / qualche fraschetta d’una d’este piante, / li pensier c’hai si faran tutti monchi”.- Therefore the master said: "If thou break off some little spray from any of these trees, the thoughts thou hast will wholly be made vain."
Derived terms
References
- ^ mónco in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
Further reading
- monco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin muccus, a variant of mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Doublet of muco.
Pronunciation
Noun
monco m (plural moncos)
- nasal mucus; booger