carco

See also: carcò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.ko/
  • Rhymes: -arko
  • Hyphenation: càr‧co

Noun

carco m (plural carchi)

  1. (poetic, literary, archaic) alternative form of carico (“load”)

Adjective

carco (feminine carca, masculine plural carchi, feminine plural carche)

  1. (poetic, literary, archaic) alternative form of carico (“loaded”)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ed una lupa, che di tutte bramesembiava carca ne la sua magrezza, ¶ e molte genti fé già viver grame,
      And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings seemed to be laden in her meagreness, ⁠and many folk has caused to live forlorn!

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

From carc (“care”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkarkɔ/

Verb

carco (first-person singular present carcaf)

  1. (South Wales, colloquial) to take care, to care
    Synonym: gofalu
  2. (South Wales, colloquial) to babysit
    Synonym: gwarchod

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future carcaf cerci carca carcwn cercwch, carcwch carcant cercir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional 		carcwn carcit carcai carcem carcech carcent cercid
preterite cercais cercaist carcodd carcasom carcasoch carcasant carcwyd
pluperfect carcaswn carcasit carcasai carcasem carcasech carcasent carcasid, carcesid
present subjunctive carcwyf cercych carco carcom carcoch carcont carcer
imperative — carca carced carcwn cercwch, carcwch carcent carcer
verbal noun carco
verbal adjectives carcedig
carcadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
inflected
colloquial forms 		singular plural
first second third first second third
future carca i,
carcaf i 		carci di carcith o/e/hi,
carciff e/hi 		carcwn ni carcwch chi carcan nhw
conditional carcwn i,
carcswn i 		carcet ti,
carcset ti 		carcai fo/fe/hi,
carcsai fo/fe/hi 		carcen ni,
carcsen ni 		carcech chi,
carcsech chi 		carcen nhw,
carcsen nhw
preterite carcais i,
carces i 		carcaist ti,
carcest ti 		carcodd o/e/hi carcon ni carcoch chi carcon nhw
imperative — carca — — carcwch —

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Mutated forms of carco
radical soft nasal aspirate
carco garco ngharco charco

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “carco”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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