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English

Etymology

Spanish or Portuguese

Noun

mico (plural micos)

1. A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.

Usage notes

• The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

Synonyms

• (Mico melanurus): black-tailed marmoset

References

• mico at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ICOM, omic

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish mico.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mico m (plural micos)

1. monkey

Further reading

• “mico” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mico” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mico” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mico” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to shimmer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ko?/, [?m?ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ko/, [?mi?k?]

Verb

mic? (present infinitive mic?re, perfect active micu? or mic?v?); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. I vibrate, quiver
2. I twinkle, glitter
3. I tremble
4. I beat (of the pulse)

Conjugation

• The normal Classical perfect is micu?. Perfect mic?v? is found extremely rarely in Classical use, but is common in Medieval Latin.
• There is a supine mictum, found in Priscian, but it is not in use.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italian: ammiccare

References

• mico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mico in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: co

Etymology 1

From a Cariban language, likely via Spanish mico.

Noun

mico m (plural micos)

1. any of several very small and long-tailed monkeys, such as capuchins and marmosets

   Synonym: sagui (but some make a distinction between saguis and micos)

2. (Minho) Devil

Derived terms

See also

• macaco

Etymology 2

Short for mico-preto, a children’s card game where the players have to amass pairs of matching cards, and the card that traditionally depicts a small monkey is the only one without a pair.

Noun

mico m (plural micos)

1. (Brazil) gaffe; blunder; faux pas (an embarrassing mistake or situation)

   Synonyms: gafe, (Brazil) papelão

Derived terms

• micar
• pagar mico

Verb

mico

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of micar

References

Spanish

Etymology

From Cumanagoto [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?miko/, [?mi.ko]

Noun

mico m (plural micos)

1. a monkey with a prehensile tail

   Synonyms: mono, (Mexico) chango

2. (familiar) child
3. an ugly person
4. (Nicaragua) vulva
5. (coastal Ecuador) a blonde person

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: mico
• ? Chayuco Mixtec: micu
• ? Isthmus Zapotec: migu
• ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: mi?coj
• ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mico

Further reading

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

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mico.

Noun

mico

1. monkey

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 30, 141

English

Noun

milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)

1. (US) sorghum

Anagrams

• OIML, limo, moil

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /mi?l?o?/

Noun

milo

1. Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

Esperanto

Etymology

From mil +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?milo/
• Hyphenation: mil?o
• Rhymes: -ilo

Noun

milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)

1. thousand, a group of one thousand of something
   • 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.

     El ?iu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ?etadis en la teron, apena? unu ricevis radikojn.

     Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mêlon)

Noun

milo n

1. apple

Korak

Noun

milo

1. wild chicken

Coordinate terms

• titer (“domesticated chicken”)

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)

Neapolitan

Noun

milo m

1. apple
2. apple tree

Synonyms

• (apple tree) - pede 'e mele

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîlo/
• Hyphenation: mi?lo

Adverb

m?lo (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dearly, kindly, cordially

Adjective

milo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mio

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mì?l?/

Noun

mílo n

1. soap

Inflection

Derived terms

• míliti

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mì?l?/

Adverb

mílo

1. movingly, touchingly
2. mildly, gently
3. leniently

Further reading

• “milo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swahili

Noun

milo

1. plural of mlo