different between pato vs paco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.

Noun

pato (uncountable)

1. The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.

Anagrams

• POTA, atop

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat?u/, /?pat??/
• Hyphenation: pa?to

Noun

pátu

1. a duck; any member of the ducks form taxon in the family "Anatidae"

Anagrams

• atop, otap, tapo, taop

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

Noun

pato

1. duck

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish pato (“duck”).

Noun

pato

1. duck

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pato]

Noun

pato f

1. vocative singular of pata

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin patella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pato/
• Hyphenation: pa?to
• Rhymes: -ato
• Audio:

Noun

pato (accusative singular paton, plural patoj, accusative plural patojn)

1. pan

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pato, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?to/, [?p?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -?to
• Syllabification: pa?to

Noun

pato

1. dam, dike

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

• paot

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pato (13th century, Alfonso X), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pat?]

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck; drake

   Synonyms: lavanco, parro, parrulo

References

• “pato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ingrian

Noun

pato

1. dam

Karao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

Noun

pato

1. duck

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic ????? (pa??), from Arabic ????? (ba??, “duck”), from Persian ??? (bat, “duck”). Cognate with Galician pato, Spanish pato and Swahili bata.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pa.tu/

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck

Related terms

• patinho

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: patu
• Tok Pisin: pato

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian pat (“bed”).

Noun

pato m (plural patura)

1. bed

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (pá??), from Arabic ????? (ba??, “duck”), from Persian ??? (bat, “duck”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck, drake

   Synonym: ánade

   Hypernym: anseriforme

   Coordinate terms: ánsar, barnacla, cisne, ganso, oca, porrón, serreta

2. (vulgar, slang, Antilles, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Puerto Rico) homosexual, faggot

   Synonyms: marica, marico, maricón, puto

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

pato (ma class, plural mapato)

1. acquisition
2. achievement
3. earning

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.t?/

Noun

pato

1. duck (animal)

Related terms

• bibe

Tahitian

Verb

pato

1. break out

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Portuguese pato.

Noun

pato

1. duck

Derived terms

• pato man

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