different between paco vs pacu

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

English

Etymology

From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.

Noun

pacu (plural pacus)

1. Any of several South American freshwater fishes related to the piranha.

Derived terms

• black pacu (Colossoma macropomum, Myleus schomburgkii, or Piaractus brachypomus)
• red-bellied pacu (Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum)

Translations

Anagrams

• A cup, A-cup, Cupa, Puac, caup

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.t??u/
• Rhymes: -acu, -cu, -u

Verb

pacu (Jawi spelling ?????)

1. to drive
2. to spur
3. to urge

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: pacu

References

• "pacu" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
• “pacu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

pacu

1. third-person plural imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?su/

Noun

pacu m

1. locative/vocative singular of pac

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pacú (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi paku.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.?ku/

Noun

pacu m (plural pacus)

1. pacu (any of several species of South American fishes)

Derived terms

• pacuzinho (diminutive)
• pacuzão (augmentative)