pico

pico (uncountable)

1. Clipping of pico de gallo.

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pico

1. first-person singular present indicative form of picar

From Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitso/

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• Hyphenation: pi‧co

pico (accusative singular picon, plural picoj, accusative plural picojn)

1. pizza

• picejo (“pizzeria”)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pico, from Vulgar Latin *piccus, ultimately of Germanic origin or either from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko̝/

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cume, curuto

2. (by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak

   Synonyms: coto, outeiro

3. sharp tip of anything
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30:

     Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.

     And she gathered from the best, more noble and virtuous herbs, a quantity, together with its roots, uprooting them with the help of the tip of a sickle

   Synonyms: bico, punta

4. thorn

   Synonym: espiña

5. pickaxe
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:

     Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos

     They didn't had there ladders or pickaxes

   Synonym: picaraña

• Picato
• picaraña
• Pico
• Picón
• Picoto
• Picoucelo
• Picouso
• picouto
• Picouzo

• “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pico” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pico” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pico” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pico” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

pico

1. woodpecker

pīcō

1. dative singular of pīcus
2. ablative singular of pīcus

• pico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pico in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Back-formation from picar.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ku/
• Hyphenation: pi‧co

pico m (plural picos)

1. peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)

   Esclaram até o pico.

   They climbed to the top.

2. (by extension) a high mountain that ends in a peak

   O Pico da Neblina é a montanha mais alta do Brasil.

   Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in Brazil.

3. (figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)
4. sharp tip of anything
   1. thorn
5. tart or acid flavour
6. zest; enthusiasm; excitement
7. instrument for cutting stone
8. picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kg or 110.2 lb)
9. (informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage
10. (Brazil) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot
11. (Brazil, informal) injected dosage
12. (Portugal, derogatory) homosexual man

• (top of a mountain): topo; cume; cimo
• (apogee): auge; apogeu; topo; cimo
• (sharp tip): bico
• (thorn): espinho; acúleo
• (enthusiasm): pique; entusiasmo
• (instrument for cutting stone): picão
• (picul): picul
• (hullabaloo, Brazil): fuzuê
• (homosexual man, Portugal, derogatory): picolho

• horário de pico (rush hour)
• e pico (and a bit more)

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pico

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of picar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiko/

From Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. It was likely later influenced phonetically by picar. Compare English beak.

pico m (plural picos)

1. beak (of a bird)
2. sharp point
3. pick, pickaxe
4. peak, summit (of a mountain)
5. a bit, a little

   El vuelo dura tres horas y pico. ― The flight lasts a little over three hours.

6. (zoology) crest
7. (colloquial, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica) penis
8. (colloquial, Bolivia, Colombia) kiss
9. (colloquial) trap; gob (mouth)

   ¡Cierra el pico! ― Shut your trap!

• (peak): cima, cumbre, cúspide
• (penis): See Thesaurus:pene.

See the etymology of the main entry.

pico

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of picar.

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