tico

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See also: Tico and -tico

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ko/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ku/

Adjective

tico (feminine tica, masculine plural ticos, feminine plural ticas)

Costa Rican (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Noun

tico m (plural ticos)

Etymology 2

Verb

tico

first-person singular present indicative of ticar

Spanish

Etymology

Arose from the frequent use of the diminutive suffix -tico in Costa Rica.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtiko/
Audio (Costa Rica): (file)
Rhymes: -iko
Syllabification: ti‧co

Adjective

tico (feminine tica, masculine plural ticos, feminine plural ticas)

(slang) Costa Rican
Synonym: costarricense
- 30 January 2014, Álvaro Murillo, Laura Chinchilla se va de Cuba con un llamado por la sociedad civil, La Nación:
  Chinchilla no aludió tampoco a los disidentes cubanos, pero su directora de Política Exterior, Linyi Baidal, sí se reunió con dos para recibir sus reclamos, en la embajada tica en La Habana.
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Noun

tico m (plural ticos)

(slang) Costa Rican
Synonym: costarricense
- 16 April 2013, Daniela Cerdas, Tico se convierte en héroe del atentado de la Maratón de Boston, La Nación:
  Un tico, identificado como Carlos Arredondo, es llamado héroe por la prensa internacional, luego de que minutos después de las explosiones de ayer en la Maratón de Boston fuera uno de los primeros en ayudar en las labores de rescate de los heridos.
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Further reading

“tico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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