paco

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkəʊ/

paco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)

1. (archaic) An alpaca.
2. An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
   • 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:

     Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.

• ACPO, APCO, Capo, CoAP, Copa, OPAC, acop, capo

• IPA^(key): /paˈko/

paco f

1. mother
2. parallel aunt

• báco

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "paco", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

From Latin pāx (“peace”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpat͡so]
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• Rhymes: -at͡so
• Hyphenation: pa‧co

paco (accusative singular pacon, plural pacoj, accusative plural pacojn)

1. peace

   Antonym: malpaco

   Post tri longaj jaroj la popolo soporis pacon. ― After three long years, the people yearned for peace.

   La deziro al paco sidas en ĉiu homa koro. ― The desire for peace resides in each human heart.

• malpaco
• pacama

Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡so/

paco (uncountable)

1. peace

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: pà‧co

Borrowed from Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.

paco m (plural pachi)

1. Synonym of alpaca

• paco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paco

1. first-person singular present indicative of pacare

• capo, capo-, poca

From Proto-Italic *pakō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, fasten”); or, a denominal formed from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (“forming verbs”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.koː/, [ˈpäːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ko/, [ˈpäːko]

pācō (present infinitive pācāre, perfect active pācāvī, supine pācātum); first conjugation

1. to make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue

   Synonyms: pācificō, expugnō, superō, dēvincō, subiciō, subigō, ēvincō, domō, opprimō

2. (Late or Medieval Latin) to settle, satisfy

• “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere
    

paco

1. second-person singular imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡sɔ/
• Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
• Syllabification: pa‧co

paco f

1. vocative singular of paca

• IPA^(key): /ˈpako/ [ˈpa.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: pa‧co

Borrowed from Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”).

paco (feminine paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)

1. reddish (color)

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. llama

   Synonym: llama

• → Italian: paco

See paca.

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) male paca

Unknown; possibly related to pacífico (“peaceful”), (pejoratively) referring to the police as a peacekeeping force.

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. (colloquial, derogatory, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama) police officer

• Huang, Y. (2016). Learning Spanish Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics. United Kingdom: Xlibris US.

Of imitative origin (presumably of gunfire).

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)

1. (colloquial, obsolete, Spain) During Spanish occupation in Africa, a Moroccan sniper

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Of unclear origin. Possibly a shortening of pasta de cocaína, or a corruption of basuco (“cocaine paste”).

paco m (plural pacos)

1. cocaine paste
2. (Spain, Argentina, recreational drug) a cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals

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