porco

See also: Porco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾkʊ]

Noun

porco m (plural porcos)

1. pig

   Synonym: cocho

2. (figurative) an untidy person

Derived terms

• porco celta

Adjective

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas)

1. untidy, unclean, dirty
2. filthy

Derived terms

• porcallada (“dirty place; disgusting action”)
• porcallán (“dirty person”)
• porco bravo (“boar”)
• porco fero (“boar”)
• porco montés (“boar”)
• porco celta (a local breed of pigs)
• porco do mar (“mereswine, porpoise”)
• porco espiño (“hedgehog”)
• porco teixo (“badger”)
• porqueira (“pigsty”)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Noun

porco (plural porcos)

1. pig, pork

Italian

Etymology

From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔrko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porci, feminine porca)

1. pig, pork

   Synonyms: maiale, suino

Derived terms

• porcheria

Adjective

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porci, feminine plural porche)

1. terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)

Derived terms

• porcamente

Anagrams

• copro, copro-, corpo

Latin

Noun

porcō

1. dative/ablative singular of porcus

Macanese

Etymology

Presumably from Portuguese porco, from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

Noun

porco

1. pig

   ramendâ unga porco ― like a pig

2. pork

   porco balichám tamarinho ― Macanese dish prepared with pork, tamarind and balichám (dried shrimp paste)

   porco chau-chau parida ― special pork stew served to woman after giving birth (literally, “pork stir-fry birthed”)

Related terms

• porquéro

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

Portuguese

porco

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”). Compare Galician porco.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoh.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoh.ku]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.ku/ [ˈpoχ.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɻ.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.ku/

• Hyphenation: por‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
2. pork; swineflesh
3. (derogatory) pig (dirty or slovenly person)

   Synonym: porcalhão

Synonyms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

Coordinate terms

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

Derived terms

• emporcalhado
• emporcalhar
• espírito de porco
• ir com os porcos
• porcalho
• porcaria
• porco-bravo
• porco-d'água
• porco-da-índia
• porco-da-terra
• porco-do-mar
• porco-do-mato
• porco-espinho
• porco-formigueiro
• porco-marinho
• porco-montês
• porco-veado
• porqueira
• porqueiro
• porquinho

 

Related terms

• pocilga
• porca
• porcalhão
• porcino

 

Adjective

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. (of a person) filthy; slovenly; unkempt

   Synonym: emporcalhado

2. (of an object or action) coarse (of inferior quality)

   Synonyms: desleixado, relaxado

Synonyms

• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “coarse”): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

Derived terms

• porcamente

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: porku
• Macanese: porco
• Papiamentu: porko
• → Guaraní: poryko
• → Kaingang: porko

References

• “porco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin porcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾko/ [ˈpoɾ.ko]
• Rhymes: -oɾko
• Syllabification: por‧co

Noun

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas)

1. (obsolete) pig

Further reading

• “porco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10