chico
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]chico (plural chicos)
- (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish chicozapote (through a regional abbreviation), from Nahuatl xicotzapotl. Cognate of chicle.
Noun
[edit]chico (plural chicos)
- The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
Etymology 3
[edit]Perhaps from Spanish choclo, influded by chico.
Noun
[edit]chico (plural chicos)
- (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
Guyanese Creole English
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Etymology
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Noun
[edit]chico
References
[edit]- Samad, Daizal R., Harripersaud, Ashwannie (2023) A Dictionary of Guyanese Words and Expressions, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 36
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian cicca.[1][2]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]chico m (plural chicos)
- (Portugal, regional) pig
- (colloquial) period (menstruation)
- (Brazil, regional, colloquial) ass (the anus)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “chico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “chico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Indirectly related to Latin ciccum (“insignificant thing; trifle”); found in several Romance languages as an expressive creation.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chico (feminine chica, masculine plural chicos, feminine plural chicas)
Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]chico m (plural chicos, feminine chica, feminine plural chicas)
Descendants
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “chico”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “chico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik.
Noun
[edit]chico m (plural chicos)
- (Mexico) white-nosed coati (Nasua Narica)
- (Mexico) raccoon (Procyon lotor)
- Synonym: mapache
References
[edit]- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 583
Tagalog
[edit]Noun
[edit]chico (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜃᜓ)
- Alternative spelling of tsiko
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Canadian English
- American English
- English informal terms
- English terms derived from Nahuatl
- en:Fruits
- en:Grains
- en:People
- en:Sapote family plants
- Guyanese Creole English lemmas
- Guyanese Creole English nouns
- gyn:Sweets
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Italian
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- European Portuguese
- Regional Portuguese
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish sound-symbolic terms
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/iko
- Rhymes:Spanish/iko/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Yucatec Maya
- Spanish terms derived from Yucatec Maya
- Mexican Spanish
- es:Age
- es:Children
- es:Procyonids
- Spanish terms of address
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog terms spelled with C