meco

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmɛ.ko]

meco m (plural mecos)

1. (Maestrat) weaned calf
2. (Mallorca) animal without a tail
3. (Barcelona criminal slang) fool, easy mark

meco m (plural mecos, feminine meca) (Ibiza)

1. boy, kid
2. scarecrow
3. head louse

meco (Mallorca)

1. no one
2. nothing

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

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

meco

1. (archaic, literary) with me
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 55–56; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Dintorno mi guardò, come talento
     avesse di veder s’altri era meco

     He looked around me, as if he wanted to see if someone else were with me

   • c. 1440, Giusto de' Conti, La bella mano [The beautiful hand]; republished in La bella mano di Giusto de' Conti romano, con una raccolta di rime d'antichi toscani‎, revised and expanded edition, Verona: Giannalberto Tummermani, 1750, page 122:

     E quando penſo alla mia ardente face,
     Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.

     [E, quando penso alla mia ardente face,
     il cor meco s'adira, ed io con lui.]

     And when I think about my burning light, my heart becomes angry with me, and I with it.

• nosco
• teco
• seco
• vosco

• com'è, come

Shortening of chichimeca.

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

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

1. (dated, Mexico) brown-colored

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…

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• meco. Asíhablamos.com

• “meco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014