sueco

sueco

1. neuter of suecu

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Suecus, ultimately from Latin Suiōnēs (“Swedes”) (in Tacitus); cognate with Old English Swēon (“Swedes”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̺wɛ.kʊ]

sueco (feminine sueca, masculine plural suecos, feminine plural suecas)

1. Swedish

sueco m (plural suecos, feminine sueca, feminine plural suecas)

1. Swede

sueco m (uncountable)

1. Swedish (language)

• Suecia

• “sueco”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From earlier suécio (“Swedish”), from Suécia (“Sweden”), from Latin Suiones (“Swedes”), a Germanic tribe mentioned in Tacitus’ Germania.

• Rhymes: -ɛku
• Hyphenation: su‧e‧co

sueco m (plural suecos, feminine sueca, feminine plural suecas)

1. Swede (person from Sweden)
2. (uncountable) Swedish (a Germanic language of Sweden)

• suécio (archaic)

sueco (feminine sueca, masculine plural suecos, feminine plural suecas, not comparable)

1. Swedish (of Sweden or its people)
2. Swedish (of the Swedish language)

• suécio (archaic)

• Suécia
• suiões

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Suecus, ultimately from Latin Suiōnēs (“Swedes”) (in Tacitus); cognate with Old English Swēon (“Swedes”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweko/ [ˈswe.ko]

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• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: sue‧co
• Homophone: (Latin America) zueco

sueco (feminine sueca, masculine plural suecos, feminine plural suecas)

1. Swedish (from or native to Sweden)
2. Swedish (pertaining to Sweden)

sueco m (plural suecos, feminine sueca, feminine plural suecas)

1. a Swede

sueco m (uncountable)

1. Swedish (language)

• “sueco”, 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