porco

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾkʊ]

porco m (plural porcos)

1. pig

   Synonym: cocho

2. (figurative) an untidy person

• porco celta

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas)

1. untidy, unclean, dirty
2. filthy

• porcallada (“dirty place; disgusting action”)
• porcallán (“dirty person”)
• porco bravo (“boar”)
• porco fero (“boar”)
• porco montés (“boar”)
• porco celta (a local breed of pigs)
• porco do mar (“mereswine, porpoise”)
• porco espiño (“hedgehog”)
• porco teixo (“badger”)
• porqueira (“pigsty”)

• “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “porco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “porco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

porco (plural porcos)

1. pig, pork

From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔrko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧co

porco m (plural porci)

1. pig, pork

   Synonyms: maiale, suino

• porca

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porci, feminine plural porche)

1. terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)

• porcamente

• copro, copro-, corpo

porcō

1. dative/ablative singular of porcus

Presumably from Portuguese porco, from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

porco

1. pig

   ramendâ unga porco ― like a pig

2. pork

   porco balichám tamarinho ― Macanese dish prepared with pork, tamarind and balichám (dried shrimp paste)

   porco chau-chau parida ― special pork stew served to woman after giving birth (literally, “pork stir-fry birthed”)

• porquéro

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”). Compare Galician porco.

• Hyphenation: por‧co

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
2. pork; swineflesh
3. (derogatory) pig (dirty or slovenly person)

   Synonym: porcalhão

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

• (pig): See Thesaurus:porco.

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porcos, feminine plural porcas, metaphonic)

1. (of a person) filthy; slovenly; unkempt

   Synonym: emporcalhado

2. (of an object or action) coarse (of inferior quality)

   Synonyms: desleixado, relaxado

• (coarse): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

• (antonym(s) of “coarse”): See Thesaurus:grosseiro.

• porcamente

From Latin porcus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾko/ [ˈpoɾ.ko]
• Rhymes: -oɾko
• Syllabification: por‧co

porco m (plural porcos, feminine porca, feminine plural porcas)

1. (obsolete) pig

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