opaco

From Latin opācus (“shaded, shady, dark”).

opaco (feminine opaca, masculine plural opacos, feminine plural opacas)

1. opaque (allowing little light to pass through)

• opacamente

• opacidade

• “opaco”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

(Possibly borrowed) from Latin opācus (“shaded, shady, dark”), itself of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /oˈpa.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: o‧pà‧co

opaco (feminine opaca, masculine plural opachi, feminine plural opache)

1. opaque (allowing little light to pass through)
2. matt
3. dull

• opacamente

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈpaː.koː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈpa.ko/,

opācō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of opācus

• “opaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “opaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opaco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin opācus (“shaded, shady, dark”).

• Rhymes: -aku

opaco (feminine opaca, masculine plural opacos, feminine plural opacas)

1. opaque (allowing little light to pass through)

• opacamente

• opacidade

• IPA^(key): /oˈpako/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: o‧pa‧co

From Latin opācus (“shaded, shady, dark”).

opaco (feminine opaca, masculine plural opacos, feminine plural opacas)

1. opaque (allowing little light to pass through)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

opaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of opacar

• “opaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10