porco
Meaning
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- (masculine) pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa)
- (masculine) pork; swineflesh
- (derogatory,masculine) pig (dirty or slovenly person)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
por‧co
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpoʁ.ku/
Etymology
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.
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