orco

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See also: Orco and orço

Galician

Etymology

From Latin Orcus, orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).

Noun

orco m (plural orcos)

  1. hell
  2. ogre, orc
  3. lichen (symbiotic organism)
    Synonyms: orcelo, ouricela, escamenta, calquizo

References

  • “orco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus, from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔr.ko/, /ˈor.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrko, -orko
  • Hyphenation: òr‧co, ór‧co

Noun

orco m (plural orchi, feminine orchessa)

  1. ogre
  2. orc

Descendants

  • → Bavarian: Orke (Tyrol)
  • → Cimbrian: orko
  • → English: orc (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Ork, Orke, Org
  • → Luxembourgish: Ork
  • → Mòcheno: ork

References

  1. ^ Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion
  2. ^ orco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

orcō

  1. dative/ablative singular of orcus

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology

From Orco, from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro and orc.

The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English orc.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾku, (Brazil) -ɔʁku
  • Hyphenation: or‧co

Noun

orco m (plural orcos)

  1. (poetic, literary) hell; underworld
  2. (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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos). Doublet of huerco.

Pronunciation

Noun

orco m (plural orcos)

  1. Orcus
  2. (poetic) hell
  3. (fantasy, folklore) orc

Noun

orco m (plural orcos, feminine orca, feminine plural orcas)

  1. male orca, killer whale

Further reading

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