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English

Etymology

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Noun

miro

1. The dark, durable, attractive wood of the portia tree Thespesia populnea.
2. Prumnopitys ferruginea, a conifer of New Zealand.

Translations

Anagrams

• IMRO, Moir, Mori

Asturian

Verb

miro

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirar

Catalan

Verb

miro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of mirar

Esperanto

Etymology

From miri (“to wonder”) +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?miro/
• Hyphenation: mi?ro
• Rhymes: -iro

Noun

miro (uncountable, accusative miron)

1. sense of wonder

Derived terms

• mirige

Galician

Verb

miro

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirar

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iro

Verb

miro

1. first-person singular present indicative of mirare

Anagrams

• mori, morì, rimo, rimò

Latin

Etymology

Variant form of m?ror, used especially in Late or Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi?.ro?/, [?mi??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ro/, [?mi???]

Verb

m?r? (present infinitive m?r?re, perfect active m?r?v?, supine m?r?tum); first conjugation

1. I wonder or marvel (at)

Conjugation

Related terms

• m?ror

Participle

m?r?

1. inflection of m?rus:
   1. dative masculine/neuter singular
   2. ablative masculine singular
   3. ablative neuter singular

References

• miro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• miro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• miro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

miro

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of mirar

Rapa Nui

Noun

miro

1. boat
2. tree
3. part of a tree; a stick

Derived terms

• reimiro

Somali

Noun

miro ?

1. nut

Spanish

Verb

miro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mirar.

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