orco
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Galician
Etymology
From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus.
Noun
orco m (plural orcos)
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus.
Pronunciation
Noun
orco m (plural orchi, feminine orchessa)
Descendants
References
- ^ orco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
orcō
Portuguese
Etymology
From Orco, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”). Doublet of ogro and orc.
The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English orc.
Pronunciation
Noun
orco m (plural orcos)
- (poetic, literary) hell; underworld
- (fantasy, mythology) orc
- Synonym: orc
- 2007 July 7, Marcelo Rodrigues et al., “Raças Selvagens” (chapter 6.4), in Tagmar II – Livro de Criaturas, 2.2.0 edition, Projeto Tagmar 2, archived from the original on 2024-02-09, page 41, column 1:
- Orcos são seres de aparência humana, porém incrivelmente feios, com braços grandes, corpo peludo, rosto deformado, dentes caninos inferiores protuberantes e ligeiramente corcundas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “orco”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “orco”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “orco”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “orco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus. Doublet of huerco.
Pronunciation
Noun
orco m (plural orcos)
Noun
orco m (plural orcos, feminine orca, feminine plural orcas)
- male orca, killer whale
Further reading
- “orco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16