meteco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin metoecus, from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos), from μετα- (meta-) + οἶκος (oîkos, house).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈtɛ.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ɛko
  • Hyphenation: me‧tè‧co

Adjective

meteco (feminine meteca, masculine plural meteci, feminine plural meteche)

  1. metic

Anagrams

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /meˈtɛ.ku/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /meˈtɛ.ko/

  • Hyphenation: me‧te‧co

Noun

meteco m (plural metecos)

  1. metic (in Ancient Greece, a resident alien without citizen rights)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈteko/ [meˈt̪e.ko]
  • Rhymes: -eko
  • Syllabification: me‧te‧co

Noun

meteco m (plural metecos, feminine meteca, feminine plural metecas)

  1. metic

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