different between narco vs arco

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k??

Etymology 1

From narcotic.

Noun

narco (plural narcos)

1. Narcotics.
   • 1971, Robert Deane Pharr, SRO:

     Margo sighed her contentment. ‘Selling narco in Harlem is the life. There's nothing finer.’

   • 2002, Jeanette Windle, The DMZ:

     Colonel Thornton had the deepest admiration for the Colombians at all levels of society who had made a stand against corruption and narco-dealing, often at the cost of their own lives.

2. A South American drug baron.
3. A police officer specializing in drug crimes

Related terms

• knocko, another term for a narcotics agent

Etymology 2

From narcolepsy.

Noun

narco (plural narcos)

1. Someone suffering from narcolepsy

Anagrams

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acorn, acron, caron, coran, racon

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?ko/, [?na?.ko]

Etymology 1

Short for narcotraficante (“drug dealer”).

Noun

narco m (plural narcos, feminine narca, feminine plural narcas)

1. drug dealer, drug lord

Derived terms

• narco-

Related terms

• narcótico

Etymology 2

Short for narcotráfico (“drug trafficking”).

Noun

narco m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) drug trafficking

Hyponyms

• narcomayoreo
• narcomenudeo

Derived terms

• narco-

English

Etymology

From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.

Adverb

arco (not comparable)

1. (music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

Anagrams

• AOCR, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, ocra, orca

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish arco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ko/

Noun

arco

1. (architecture) arch

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arco, from Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ko?/

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. bow (weapon)
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 398:

     Et el tragía en sua mão h? arco, en que nõ auj?a madeyra, mays era todo feyto de coyros cruus et de neruos engrudidos per grãde arte et per grã maestría

     He was carrying a bow in his hand, not made of wood, but completely made with crude hides and glued tendons, with great art and great mastery

2. (geometry) arc
3. (architecture) arch
4. hoop (of a barrel)
5. each one of the circles of a water wheel
6. Moon's halo

Derived terms

• Arco
• arco da vella
• Arcos
• Fontarcade
• Fonte Arcada

References

• “arco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “arco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “arco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

arco m (plural archi)

1. bow (weapon)

2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)

3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch

Related terms

See also

• freccia f (weaponry)
• balestra f (weaponry)
• archetto m (weaponry)
• arcata f (architecture)
• volta f (architecture)
• curva f (by extension)
• curvatura f (by extension)
• gamma f
• ventaglio m
• spettro m
• schieramento m (politics)
• corso m (figuratively)
• periodo m (figuratively)

Anagrams

• acro, caro, ocra, orca, roca

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese arco, arquo (“arch, bow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a?.ko/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /?ah.ku/

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. (geometry) arc
2. arc, curve

   Synonym: curva

3. (architecture) arch
4. bow (weapon)

   Synonym: arco-e-flecha

5. bow (rod used to play stringed instruments)
6. (dentistry) archwire (orthodontic wire conforming to the alveolar or dental arch)
7. (ophthalmology) arcus (white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea)

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

arco

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with English arc and arch.

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. bow (weapon)

2. (music) bow (rod for an instrument)
3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch
5. (sports, Latin America) goal (structure)

Derived terms

See also

• flecha

Further reading

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