flaco

flaco

1. neuter of flacu

From Spanish flaco.

flaco

1. thin

Borrowed from Spanish flaco (“skinny”). Doublet of fraco.

flaco (feminine flaca, masculine plural flacos, feminine plural flacas)

1. (Rio Grande do Sul, especially of an animal) feeble; frail

From Latin flaccus, perhaps an early borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflako/ [ˈfla.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: fla‧co

flaco (feminine flaca, masculine plural flacos, feminine plural flacas, superlative flaquísimo)

1. skinny, thin, slim

   Synonym: delgado

   Antonym: gordo

• → Papiamentu: flaku

flaco m (plural flacos, feminine flaca, feminine plural flacas)

1. a thin man
2. (colloquial, Rioplatense, Colombia) used to address someone without using their name
3. (colloquial, Rioplatense) a young man
4. (colloquial, Peru) boyfriend

flaco m (plural flacos)

1. (informal, euphemistic) urine, urination, number one

• “flaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “flaco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 906
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “flaccus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 593