pico

English

Noun

pico (uncountable)

1. Ellipsis of pico de gallo.

See also

• pico projector
• pico-

Anagrams

• COIP, ICOP, IOPC

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

Esperanto

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Etymology

From Italian pizza, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it͡so
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

Noun

pico (accusative singular picon, plural picoj, accusative plural picojn)

1. pizza

Derived terms

• picejo (“pizzeria”)

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pico, from Vulgar Latin *piccus, ultimately either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko̝/

Noun

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cume, curuto

2. (by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak

   Synonyms: coto, outeiro

3. sharp tip of anything
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30:

     Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.

     And she gathered from the best, more noble and virtuous herbs, a quantity, together with its roots, uprooting them with the help of the tip of a sickle

   Synonyms: bico, punta

4. thorn

   Synonym: espiña

5. pickaxe
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:

     Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos

     They didn't had there ladders or pickaxes

   Synonym: picaraña

Derived terms

References

• “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pico” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pico” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pico” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

Latin

Etymology

From pix (“pitch”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

picō (present infinitive picāre, perfect active picāvī, supine picātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to smear with pitch, to tar
2. (transitive) to season (wine) with a pitchy flavour

Conjugation

Descendants

• Catalan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
• Galician: pegar
• Occitan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
  • → French: péguer, empéguer
• Portuguese: pegar
• ⇒ Sicilian: mpicari
• Spanish: pegar, ⇒ empegar

Noun

pīcō

1. dative/ablative singular of pīcus

References

• “pico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pico in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sɔ/
• Rhymes: -it͡sɔ
• Syllabification: pi‧co

Noun

pico f

1. vocative singular of pica

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophone: Pico
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

Etymology 1

Deverbal from picar.

Noun

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak, summit, top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Escalaram até o pico. ― They climbed to the top.

   Synonyms: topo, cume, cimo

2. (by extension) a high mountain that ends in a peak

   O Pico da Neblina é a montanha mais alta do Brasil. ― Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in Brazil.

3. (figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the greatest, highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)

   Synonyms: auge, apogeu, topo, cimo

4. sharp tip of anything

   Synonym: bico

   1. thorn

      Synonyms: espinho, acúleo

5. tart or acid flavour

   Synonym: pique

6. zest, enthusiasm, excitement

   Synonyms: pique, entusiasmo

7. instrument for cutting stone

   Synonym: picão

8. picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kg or 110.2 lb)

   Synonym: picul

9. (informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage
10. (Brazil, informal) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot

    Synonyms: tumulto, fuzuê

11. (Brazil, informal) injected dosage
12. (Portugal, derogatory) homosexual man

    Synonym: picolho

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pico

1. vocative singular of pica

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: pi‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. It was phonetically influenced by the verb picar (“to peck”). Compare English beak.

Noun

pico m (plural picos)

1. beak (of a bird)
2. sharp point
3. pick, pickaxe
4. peak, summit (of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cima, cumbre, cúspide

5. spout

   Synonym: (Spain) pitorro

6. a bit, a little

   El vuelo dura tres horas y pico.

   The flight lasts a little over three hours.

7. (zoology) crest
8. (vulgar, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

9. (colloquial, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina) kiss
10. (colloquial) trap; gob (mouth)

    ¡Cierra el pico!

    Shut your trap!

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: tlölpico
• → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: píko

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

Further reading

• “pico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014