different between maco vs paco

English

Noun

maco (uncountable)

1. An Egyptian cotton once used to make underwear and stockings.

Anagrams

• OAMC, camo, coma

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish majo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.ku/

Adjective

maco (feminine maca, masculine plural macos, feminine plural maques)

1. beautiful, pretty

   Synonym: bonic

2. nice, lovely

   Synonym: agradable

Derived terms

• quemaco

Further reading

• “maco” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maco” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat?so/
• Hyphenation: ma?co
• Rhymes: -at?so

Noun

maco (accusative singular macon, plural macoj, accusative plural macojn)

1. matzo, matzah

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mako/, [?ma.ko]

Noun

maco m (plural macos)

1. prison

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??k??/

Noun

paco (plural pacos or pacoes)

1. (archaic) alpaca
2. An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)

   • 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.

Anagrams

• ACPO, APCO, Capo, CoAP, Copa, OPAC, acop, capo

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat?so/
• Rhymes: -at?so

Noun

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

1. peace

   Antonym: malpaco

Derived terms

• malpaco

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin p?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?so/

Noun

paco (uncountable)

1. peace

Derived terms

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: pà?co

Etymology 1

From Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.

Noun

paco m (plural pachi)

1. Synonym of alpaca

References

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paco

1. first-person singular present indicative of pacare

Anagrams

• capo, poca

Latin

Etymology

Denominal from p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ko?/, [?pä?ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.ko/, [?p??k?]

Verb

p?c? (present infinitive p?c?re, perfect active p?c?v?, supine p?c?tum); first conjugation

1. I make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue

   Synonym: p?cific?

2. (Late or Medieval Latin) I settle, satisfy

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• 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.

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

paco

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?s?/

Noun

paco f

1. vocative singular of paca

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pako/, [?pa.ko]

Etymology 1

Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”)

Adjective

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

1. reddish (color)

Noun

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

1. llama

   Synonym: llama

Descendants

• ? Italian: paco

Etymology 2

Noun

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

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

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

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

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

Etymology 4

Noun

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

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

Etymology 5

Noun

paco m (plural pacos)

1. (Spain, recreational drug) A cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals