# orco
## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus.

### Noun

orco m (plural orcos)
* hell
* ogre, orc
* lichen (symbiotic organism)
    Synonyms: orcelo, ouricela, escamenta, calquizo

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔr.ko/, /ˈor.ko/
* Rhymes: -ɔrko, -orko
* Hyphenation: òr‧co, ór‧co

### Noun

orco m (plural orchi, feminine orchessa)
* ogre
* orc

#### Descendants

* → Bavarian: Orke (Tyrol)
* → Cimbrian: orko
* → English: orc (see there for further descendants)
* → German: Ork, Orke, Org
* → Luxembourgish: Ork
* → Mòcheno: ork

### References

* ↑ orco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -coro, coro, roco

## Latin
### Noun

orcō
* dative/ablative singular of orcus

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Orco, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”). Doublet of ogro and orc.
The sense of mythological creature is a semantic loan from English orc.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔʁ.ku/ [ˈɔh.ku]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔʁ.ku/ [ˈɔh.ku]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈɔɾ.ku/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈɔʁ.ku/ [ˈɔχ.ku]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔɻ.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔɾ.ku/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾku, (Brazil) -ɔʁku
* Hyphenation: or‧co

### Noun

orco m (plural orcos)
* (poetic, literary) hell; underworld
* (fantasy, mythology) orc
    Synonym: orc
** 2007 July 7, Marcelo Rodrigues et al., “Raças Selvagens” (chapter 6.4), in Tagmar II – Livro de Criaturas‎, 2.2.0 edition, Projeto Tagmar 2, archived from the original on 2024-02-09, page 41, column 1:Orcos são seres de aparência humana, porém incrivelmente feios, com braços grandes, corpo peludo, rosto deformado, dentes caninos inferiores protuberantes e ligeiramente corcundas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “orco”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
* “orco”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
* “orco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
* “orco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
* “orco”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
* “orco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), orcus. Doublet of huerco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoɾko/ [ˈoɾ.ko]
* Rhymes: -oɾko
* Syllabification: or‧co

### Noun

orco m (plural orcos)
* Orcus
* (poetic) hell
* (fantasy, folklore) orc

### Noun

orco m (plural orcos, feminine orca, feminine plural orcas)
* male orca, killer whale

### Further reading

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