paco

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkəʊ/

paco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)

1. (archaic) An alpaca.
2. An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
   • 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.

• CoAP, copa, OPAC, OPCA, Copa, acop, APCO, Capo, capo, ACPO

• IPA^(key): /paˈko/

paco f

1. mother
2. parallel aunt

• báco

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "paco", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

From Latin pāx (“peace”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡so/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at͡so
• Hyphenation: pa‧co

paco (accusative singular pacon, plural pacoj, accusative plural pacojn)

1. peace

   Antonym: malpaco

   Post tri longaj jaroj la popolo soporis pacon. ― After three long years, the people yearned for peace.

   La deziro al paco sidas en ĉiu homa koro. ― The desire for peace resides in each human heart.

• malpaco
• pacama

Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡so/

paco (uncountable)

1. peace

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: pà‧co

Borrowed from Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.

paco m (plural pachi)

1. synonym of alpaca

• paco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paco

1. first-person singular present indicative of pacare

• capo, capo-, poca

From pāx (“peace”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix forming verbs from nouns or adjectives).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ko]

pācō (present infinitive pācāre, perfect active pācāvī, supine pācātum); first conjugation

1. to make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue

   Synonyms: pācificō, expugnō, superō, dēvincō, subiciō, subigō, ēvincō, domō, opprimō

2. (Late or Medieval Latin) to settle, satisfy

According to De Vaan 2008, explained by Meiser 2003 as a thematized derivative of an older root aorist from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, fasten”).^[1] Compare the inchoative pacīscor. If pronounced with [g], as advocated by some ancient sources, it would come instead from this root's variant form *peh₂ǵ-: compare pangō. The perfect form pepigī can be interpreted as a form of pangō.

• pagō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ko]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ɡo]

pacō (present infinitive pacere, perfect active pepigī, supine pactum); third conjugation

1. to come to an agreement
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 363, line 6:

     'Talionis' mentionem fieri in XII. ait Verrius hoc modo: "Si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto."

     Verrius says talion (retaliation in kind) is mentioned in the Twelve [Tables] in the following manner: "If [someone] breaks [another's] limb, let there be talion unless [the first] comes to an agreement with him."

   • Rhetorica ad Herennium 2.20:

     Pacta sunt quae legibus observanda sunt, hoc modo—"Rem ubi pacunt, orato. Ni pacunt, in comitio aut in foro ante meridiem causam coniciunto."

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • Quintus Terentius Scaurus, De Orthographia 15.12:

     Ego autem contenderim magis supervacuam esse c quam k, quoniam k, ut apud Graecos, satis vim etiam c litterae exprimat, sed quosdam figura deceptos, qua non solum apud nos, verum etiam apud antiquos Graecorum g littera notabatur, ut testatur foedus Graeciae † camelo aereo in hortis Caesaris in aede Fortis Fortunae incisum, ubi pro Γ haec forma posita est, item XII tabulae, ubi est 'ni pacunt' per hanc formam, quod male quidam per c enuntiant (est enim praeteritum eius pepigi a pango, ut tango tetigi, non paxi, ut a dico dixi), credidisse nobis k deesse et hanc quidem k dixisse, ceterum pro ea nota adiecta a Spurio Carvilio novam formam g litterae positam.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “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.
  • (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
    
• “pangō” in volume 10, part 1, column 205, line 12 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

paco

1. second-person singular imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡sɔ/
• Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
• Syllabification: pa‧co

paco f

1. vocative singular of paca

• IPA^(key): /ˈpako/ [ˈpa.ko]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: pa‧co

Borrowed from Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”).

paco (feminine paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)

1. reddish (color)

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. llama

   Synonym: llama

• → Italian: paco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. masculine singular of paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

Unknown; possibly related to pacífico (“peaceful”), (pejoratively) referring to the police as a peacekeeping force.

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

2. (colloquial, derogatory, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama) police officer

• Huang, Y. (2016). Learning Spanish Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics. United Kingdom: Xlibris US.

Of imitative origin (presumably of gunfire).

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. (colloquial, obsolete, Spain) During Spanish occupation in Africa, a Moroccan sniper

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Of unclear origin. Possibly a shortening of pasta de cocaína, or a corruption of basuco (“cocaine paste”).

paco m (plural pacos)

1. cocaine paste
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Spain, Argentina, recreational drug) a cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals

• “paco”, 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