See also: Paco, pacó, pacò, and paço

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paco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)

  1. (archaic) An alpaca.
  2. An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
    • 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:
      Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.

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Cubeo

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paco f

  1. mother
  2. parallel aunt

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References

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  • N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "paco", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
  • N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Latin pāx (peace).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpat͡so]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡so
  • Hyphenation: pa‧co

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paco (accusative singular pacon, plural pacoj, accusative plural pacojn)

  1. peace
    Antonym: malpaco
    Post tri longaj jaroj la popolo soporis pacon.After three long years, the people yearned for peace.
    La deziro al paco sidas en ĉiu homa koro.The desire for peace resides in each human heart.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto pacoEnglish peaceFrench paixItalian paceSpanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.

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paco (uncountable)

  1. peace

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Italian

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

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.

Noun

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paco m (plural pachi)

  1. Synonym of alpaca

Further reading

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  • paco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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paco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pacare

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *pakō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (to join, fasten); or, a denominal formed from pāx (peace) + (verb-forming suffix).

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    pācō (present infinitive pācāre, perfect active pācāvī, supine pācātum); first conjugation

    1. to make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue
      Synonyms: pācificō, expugnō, superō, dēvincō, subiciō, subigō, ēvincō, domō, opprimō
    2. (Late or Medieval Latin) to settle, satisfy

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    References

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    • paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • paco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
      • (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
      • (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere

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    paco

    1. second-person singular imperfect active of pacati (to cook)

    Polish

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    paco f

    1. vocative singular of paca

    Spanish

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpako/ [ˈpa.ko]
    • Rhymes: -ako
    • Syllabification: pa‧co

    Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Quechua p'aqu (rojizo).

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    paco (feminine paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)

    1. reddish (color)

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    paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

    1. llama
      Synonym: llama
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    Etymology 2

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    See paca.

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    paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

    1. (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) male paca

    Etymology 3

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    Unknown; possibly related to pacífico (peaceful), (pejoratively) referring to the police as a peacekeeping force.

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    paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

    1. (colloquial, derogatory, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama) police officer

    References

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    • Huang, Y. (2016). Learning Spanish Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics. United Kingdom: Xlibris US.

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    Of imitative origin (presumably of gunfire).

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    paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

    1. (colloquial, obsolete, Spain) During Spanish occupation in Africa, a Moroccan sniper

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    • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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    Of unclear origin. Possibly a shortening of pasta de cocaína, or a corruption of basuco (cocaine paste).

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    paco m (plural pacos)

    1. cocaine paste
    2. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (Spain, Argentina, recreational drug) a cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals

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