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)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /meˈtɛ.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /meˈtɛ.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨˈtɛ.ku/
- Hyphenation: me‧te‧co
Noun
meteco m (plural metecos)
- 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)
Further reading
- “meteco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024