# pico
## English
### Noun

pico (uncountable)
* Ellipsis of pico de gallo.

### See also

* pico projector
* pico-

### Anagrams

* COIP, ICOP, IOPC, copi

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈpi.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpi.ko]

### Verb

pico
* first-person singular present indicative of picar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian pizza, of uncertain origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpit͡so]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -it͡so
* Hyphenation: pi‧co

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* picejo (“pizzeria”)

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiko/ [ˈpi.kʊ]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Hyphenation: pi‧co

#### Noun

pico m (plural picos)
* peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)
    Synonyms: cume, curuto
* (by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak
    Synonyms: coto, outeiro
* 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
* thorn
    Synonym: espiña
* pickaxe
** 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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 picosThey didn't had there ladders or pickaxes
    Synonym: picaraña

##### Derived terms

* picaraña
* picato
* Picato
* Pico
* Picón
* Picoto
* Picoucelo
* Picouso
* picouto
* Picouzo

#### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pico”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pico”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pico”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pico
* first-person singular present indicative of picar

## Latin
### Etymology

From pix (“pitch”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpi.koː/, [ˈpɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpi.ko/, [ˈpiːko]

### Verb

picō (present infinitive picāre, perfect active picāvī, supine picātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to smear with pitch, to tar
* (transitive) to season (wine) with a pitchy flavour

#### Descendants

* Catalan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
* Galician: pegar
* Occitan: pegar, ⇒ empegar
** → French: péguer, empéguer
* Portuguese: pegar
* ⇒ Sicilian: mpicari
* Spanish: pegar, ⇒ empegar

### Noun

pīcō
* dative/ablative singular of pīcus

### References

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* pico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.t͡sɔ/
* Rhymes: -it͡sɔ
* Syllabification: pi‧co

### Noun

pico f
* vocative singular of pica

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ku/
* Homophone: Pico
* Hyphenation: pi‧co

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from picar.

#### Noun

pico m (plural picos)
* peak, summit, top (the highest point of a mountain)
    Escalaram até o pico. ― They climbed to the top.
    Synonyms: topo, cume, cimo
* (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.
* (figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the greatest, highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)
    Synonyms: auge, apogeu, topo, cimo
* sharp tip of anything
    Synonym: bico
** thorn
    Synonyms: espinho, acúleo
* tart or acid flavour
    Synonym: pique
* zest, enthusiasm, excitement
    Synonyms: pique, entusiasmo
* instrument for cutting stone
    Synonym: picão
* picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kilograms or 110.2 lb)
    Synonym: picul
* (informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage
* (Brazil, informal) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot
    Synonyms: tumulto, fuzuê
* (Brazil, informal) injected dosage
* (Portugal, derogatory) homosexual man
    Synonym: picolho

##### Derived terms

* e pico (“and a bit more”)
* horário de pico (“rush hour”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pico
* first-person singular present indicative of picar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

pico
* vocative singular of pica

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiko/ [ˈpi.ko]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: pi‧co

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. It was phonetically influenced by the verb picar (“to peck”). Compare English beak.

#### Noun

pico m (plural picos)
* beak (of a bird)
* sharp point
* pick, pickaxe
* peak, summit (of a mountain)
    Synonyms: cima, cumbre, cúspide
* spout
    Synonym: (Spain) pitorro
* a bit, a little
    El vuelo dura tres horas y pico.The flight lasts a little over three hours.
* (zoology) crest
* (vulgar, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica) penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
* (colloquial, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina) kiss
* (colloquial) trap; gob (mouth)
    ¡Cierra el pico!Shut your trap!

##### Derived terms

* a pico de jarro
* abrir el pico
* andar de picos pardos
* cerrar el pico
* cortado a pico
* cortapicos y callares
* costar un pico
* echarse al pico
* falso pico
* ir de picos pardos
* irse de picos pardos
* jarabe de pico
* pico a viento
* pico de cigüeña
* pico de frasco
* pico de gallo
* pico de loro
* pico de oro
* pico de viuda
* pico dorsiblanco
* pico mediano
* pico menor
* pico picapinos
* picotazo
* picotear
* piquirrojo
* sombrero de tres picos
* y pico

##### Descendants

* → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: tlölpico
* → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: píko

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pico
* first-person singular present indicative of picar

#### Further reading

* “pico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “pico”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 525