# paco
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑːkəʊ/

### Noun

paco (countable and uncountable, plural pacos or pacoes)
* (archaic) An alpaca.
* An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
** 1880, John Percy, Metallurgy: the art of extracting metals from their ores, page 652:Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.

### Anagrams

* CoAP, copa, OPAC, OPCA, Copa, acop, APCO, Capo, capo, ACPO

## Cubeo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈko/

### Noun

paco f
* mother
* parallel aunt

### See also

* báco

### References

* N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "paco", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
* N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin pāx (“peace”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpat͡so]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -at͡so
* Hyphenation: pa‧co

### Noun

paco (accusative singular pacon, plural pacoj, accusative plural pacojn)
* peace
    Antonym: malpaco
    Post tri longaj jaroj la popolo soporis pacon. ― After three long years, the people yearned for peace.
    La deziro al paco sidas en ĉiu homa koro. ― The desire for peace resides in each human heart.

#### Derived terms

* malpaco
* pacama

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto paco, English peace, French paix, Italian pace, Spanish paz, ultimately from Latin pāx.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpat͡so/

### Noun

paco (uncountable)
* peace

#### Derived terms

* pacala
* pacema
* pacoza

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: pà‧co

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish paco, from Quechua p'aqu.

#### Noun

paco m (plural pachi)
* Synonym of alpaca

#### Further reading

* paco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

paco
* first-person singular present indicative of pacare

### Anagrams

* capo, capo-, poca

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pakō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, fasten”); or, a denominal formed from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpaː.koː/, [ˈpäːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.ko/, [ˈpäːko]

### Verb

pācō (present infinitive pācāre, perfect active pācāvī, supine pācātum); first conjugation
* to make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue
    Synonyms: pācificō, expugnō, superō, dēvincō, subiciō, subigō, ēvincō, domō, opprimō
* (Late or Medieval Latin) to settle, satisfy

#### Derived terms

* compācō
* pācātē
* pācātiō
* pācātor
* pācātum
* pācātus
* perpācō

#### Related terms

* pācālis
* pācātōrius
* pācifer
* pācificātiō
* pācificātor
* pācificē
* pācificō
* pācificus
* pāx

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Romanian: păca ⇒ împăca
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: paghé, pajé (alpine)
** Venetan: pagar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: pagar
** Franco-Provençal: payér
** Old French: paiier, paier
*** Middle French: payer
**** French: payer
*** Norman: payer, payi
*** Middle Dutch: payen
**** Dutch: paaien
*** → Middle English: payen, paine, peiwen
**** English: pay
**** Scots: pey
**** Yola: paay
** Old Occitan: pagar
*** Occitan: pagar, paiar (northern dialects)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: pagar
** Mirandese: pagar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: pagar
*** Galician: pagar
*** Portuguese: pagar
** Old Spanish: pagar
*** Spanish: pagar
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: pacur
** Italian: pagare
*** → Alemannic German: päge
** Sicilian: pagari, pajari, pavari
** Rhaeto-Romance:
*** Friulian: paiâ, pajâ
*** Romansch: pajar, pagar, pajear, pajer, paer
* Sardinian:
** pacare, pagae, pagai, pagare
* Borrowings:
** → Italian: pacare

### References

* “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “paco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* paco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to bring about a peace: pacem conciliare (Fam. 10. 27) (ambiguous) to make peace with some one: pacem facere cum aliquo (ambiguous) to break the peace: pacem dirimere, frangere

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀘𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* पचो (Devanagari script)
* পচো (Bengali script)
* පචො (Sinhalese script)
* ပစော or ပၸေႃ (Burmese script)
* ปโจ or ปะโจ (Thai script)
* ᨷᨧᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ປໂຈ or ປະໂຈ (Lao script)
* បចោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄌𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Verb

paco
* second-person singular imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.t͡sɔ/
* Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
* Syllabification: pa‧co

### Noun

paco f
* vocative singular of paca

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpako/ [ˈpa.ko]
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: pa‧co

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua p'aqu (“rojizo”).

#### Adjective

paco (feminine paca, masculine plural pacos, feminine plural pacas)
* reddish (color)

#### Noun

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
* llama
    Synonym: llama

##### Descendants

* → Italian: paco

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
* masculine singular of paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

### Etymology 3

Unknown; possibly related to pacífico (“peaceful”), (pejoratively) referring to the police as a peacekeeping force.

#### Noun

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
* (colloquial, derogatory, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama) police officer

#### References

* Huang, Y. (2016). Learning Spanish Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics. United Kingdom: Xlibris US.

### Etymology 4

Of imitative origin (presumably of gunfire).

#### Noun

paco m (plural pacos, feminine paca, feminine plural pacas)
* (colloquial, obsolete, Spain) During Spanish occupation in Africa, a Moroccan sniper

#### References

* Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

### Etymology 5

Of unclear origin. Possibly a shortening of pasta de cocaína, or a corruption of basuco (“cocaine paste”).

#### Noun

paco m (plural pacos)
* cocaine paste
* (Should we delete this sense?) (Spain, Argentina, recreational drug) a cheap drug made from cocaine paste mixed with raticide, caffeine and other chemicals

### Further reading

* “paco”, 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