meco

See also: MECO, meço, and meco-

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mēcum (probably through Old Italian conmeco, from Latin cum mēcum.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.ko/
  • Rhymes: -eko
  • Hyphenation: mé‧co

Preposition

meco

  1. (archaic, literary) with me
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto X, p. 155 vv. 55-56:
      Dintorno mi guardò, come talento ¶ avesse di scoprir s'altri era meco; […]
      Round me he gazed, as if solicitude ¶ he had to see if some one else were with me; […]
    • 1472, Giusto de’ Conti, La bella mano, Giannalberto Tumermani (1750), p. 122:
      Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.
      My heart gets angry with me, and I with it.

See also

References

  1. Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams


Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of chichimeca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeko/ [ˈme.ko]
  • Rhymes: -eko
  • Syllabification: me‧co

Adjective

meco (feminine meca, masculine plural mecos, feminine plural mecas)

  1. (dated, Mexico) brown-colored

Noun

meco m (plural mecos)

  1. (vulgar, Mexico) semen
    Synonym: lefa (Spain)
  2. (Mexico) a small child, specifically an indigenous one
    • 2006, Yolanda Lastra de Suárez, Los otomíes: su lengua y su historia, UNAM, →ISBN, page 358:
      Dos días antes de que termine el carnaval aparecen Comanches y Mecos. Los Mecos son niños pequeños como de siete años y los Comanches son jóvenes de entre 18 y 25 años. Los Mecos andan sin camisa y se pintan con lodo, ceniza…
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References

  • meco. Asíhablamos.com

Further reading

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