pico

pico (uncountable)

1. Ellipsis of pico de gallo.

• pico projector
• pico-

• COIP, ICOP, IOPC, copi

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpi.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpi.ko]

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

From Italian pizza, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡so/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it͡so
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

pico (accusative singular picon, plural picoj, accusative plural picojn)

1. pizza

• picejo (“pizzeria”)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pico, from Vulgar Latin *piccus, ultimately either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko/ [ˈpi.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cume, curuto

2. (by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak

   Synonyms: coto, outeiro

3. sharp tip of anything
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30:

     Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.

     And she gathered from the best, more noble and virtuous herbs, a quantity, together with its roots, uprooting them with the help of the tip of a sickle

   Synonyms: bico, punta

4. thorn

   Synonym: espiña

5. pickaxe
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:

     Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos

     They didn't had there ladders or pickaxes

   Synonym: picaraña

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pico”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pico”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pico”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

From pix (“pitch”).

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

picō (present infinitive picāre, perfect active picāvī, supine picātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to smear with pitch, to tar
2. (transitive) to season (wine) with a pitchy flavour

• Catalan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
• Galician: pegar
• Occitan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
  • → French: péguer, empéguer
• Portuguese: pegar
• ⇒ Sicilian: mpicari
• Spanish: pegar, ⇒ empegar

pīcō

1. dative/ablative singular of pīcus

• “pico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "pico", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sɔ/
• Rhymes: -it͡sɔ
• Syllabification: pi‧co

pico f

1. vocative singular of pica

• Homophone: Pico
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

Deverbal from picar.

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak, summit, top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Escalaram até o pico. ― They climbed to the top.

   Synonyms: topo, cume, cimo

2. (by extension) a high mountain that ends in a peak

   O Pico da Neblina é a montanha mais alta do Brasil. ― Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in Brazil.

3. (figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the greatest, highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)

   Synonyms: auge, apogeu, topo, cimo

4. sharp tip of anything

   Synonym: bico

   1. thorn

      Synonyms: espinho, acúleo

5. tart or acid flavour

   Synonym: pique

6. zest, enthusiasm, excitement

   Synonyms: pique, entusiasmo

7. instrument for cutting stone

   Synonym: picão

8. picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kilograms or 110.2 lb)

   Synonym: picul

9. (informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage
10. (Brazil, informal) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot

    Synonyms: tumulto, fuzuê

11. (Brazil, informal) injected dosage
12. (Portugal, derogatory) homosexual man

    Synonym: picolho

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

pico

1. vocative singular of pica

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko/ [ˈpi.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: pi‧co

Inherited from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. It was phonetically influenced by the verb picar (“to peck”).^[1] Compare English beak.

pico m (plural picos)

1. beak (of a bird)
2. sharp point
3. pick, pickaxe
4. peak, summit (of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cima, cumbre, cúspide

5. spout

   Synonym: (Spain) pitorro

6. a bit, a little

   El vuelo dura tres horas y pico.

   The flight lasts a little over three hours.

7. (zoology) crest
8. (vulgar, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

9. (colloquial, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina) kiss
10. (colloquial) trap; gob (mouth)

    ¡Cierra el pico!

    Shut your trap!

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: tlölpico
• → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: píko

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pico

1. first-person singular present indicative of picar

• “pico”, 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