macaco

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Oznaczający

  1. (masculine) monkey; ape
  2. (masculine) mechanical jack
  3. (derogatory,masculine) ape; savage (an uncivilised or unruly person)
  4. (derogatory,masculine) monster; freak (a hideous person)
  5. (Brazil,ethnic,masculine,slur) coon; porch monkey (derogatory term for a person of Sub-Saharan African ancestry)

Częstotliwość

B2
Łączone jako
ma‧ca‧co
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Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/maˈka.ku/
Etymologia

Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include: * from Kongo makaku (“monkeys”) * from a language of Madagascar (compare macaco, macauco, maucaco (“any of several lemurs”), perhaps related to maky); * from Kari'na macaca (“simian”), though it may have been loaned into Galibi from a language of African slaves; * from dialectal French macao (“cat; monkey; long-tailed monkey”), allegedly used in Normandy and Berry. * from Spanish muchacho; * from Macau + -aco.

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