# taco
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) enPR: tä′kō, IPA: /ˈtɑkoʊ/, [ˈtʰɑkoʊ]
* (UK) enPR: tă′kō, IPA: /ˈtækəʊ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: täʹkō, IPA: /ˈtɐːkəʊ/
* (Canada) IPA: [ˈtʰä(ː)ko(ː)], [ˈtʰako(ː)]
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -ækəʊ, -ɑːkəʊ
* Hyphenation: ta‧co

### Noun

taco (plural tacos)
* (cooking) A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
* (US, slang) The vulva.
    Synonym: pink taco
** 2007, Various, Sex & Seduction: 20 Erotic Stories, Accent Press Ltd, page 130:[…] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...
** 2009, Albert Mudrian, Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Da Capo Press, page 159:[…] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.
** 2015, Cynthia Dane, A Fragile Wife: A Billionaire Romance, Barachou Press:" […] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."
* (US, slang) A yellow stain on a shirt's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.

#### Derived terms

* Indian taco
* pink taco
* street taco
* taco bender
* taco-bender
* taco bumper
* taco fest
* taco nigger
* taco rice
* taco salad
* taco vampiro
* tuna taco
* vampire taco
* walking taco

#### Translations
### Verb

taco (third-person singular simple present tacos, present participle tacoing, simple past and past participle tacoed)
* (slang) To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.
** 1996, Arizona Highways - Volume 72, page 9:The boat tacoed — the front and rear bent in — and I was holding onto a strap on the frame, sitting more on the tube than the frame, and I was catapulted forward.
** 2003, Bob Roll, Bobke II, →ISBN, page 91:J.T. was in full scoop mode and whaling down the descent and he creamed into the dude, tacoed his front wheel, sheared off his front brake, and came as close to cursing as he ever has.
** 2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet:I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.
** 2016, Jennifer Moore, Safe Harbor, →ISBN:He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.

### Further reading

* taco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Toca, Cato, coat, cota, CATO, ATOC, octa-, octa, Cota

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

taco
* first-person singular present indicative of tacar

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ta‧co

### Noun

taco m (plural taco's, diminutive tacootje n)
* taco

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Spanish taco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑko/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ko̞]
* Rhymes: -ɑko
* Hyphenation: ta‧co

### Noun

taco
* taco

#### Declension

Possessive forms of taco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
taconi
taconi
accusative
nom.
taconi
taconi
gen.
taconi
genitive
taconi
tacojeni
partitive
tacoani
tacojani
inessive
tacossani
tacoissani
elative
tacostani
tacoistani
illative
tacooni
tacoihini
adessive
tacollani
tacoillani
ablative
tacoltani
tacoiltani
allative
tacolleni
tacoilleni
essive
taconani
tacoinani
translative
tacokseni
tacoikseni
abessive
tacottani
tacoittani
instructive
comitative
—tacoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tacosi
tacosi
accusative
nom.
tacosi
tacosi
gen.
tacosi
genitive
tacosi
tacojesi
partitive
tacoasi
tacojasi
inessive
tacossasi
tacoissasi
elative
tacostasi
tacoistasi
illative
tacoosi
tacoihisi
adessive
tacollasi
tacoillasi
ablative
tacoltasi
tacoiltasi
allative
tacollesi
tacoillesi
essive
taconasi
tacoinasi
translative
tacoksesi
tacoiksesi
abessive
tacottasi
tacoittasi
instructive
comitative
—tacoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tacomme
tacomme
accusative
nom.
tacomme
tacomme
gen.
tacomme
genitive
tacomme
tacojemme
partitive
tacoamme
tacojamme
inessive
tacossamme
tacoissamme
elative
tacostamme
tacoistamme
illative
tacoomme
tacoihimme
adessive
tacollamme
tacoillamme
ablative
tacoltamme
tacoiltamme
allative
tacollemme
tacoillemme
essive
taconamme
tacoinamme
translative
tacoksemme
tacoiksemme
abessive
tacottamme
tacoittamme
instructive
comitative
—tacoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
taconne
taconne
accusative
nom.
taconne
taconne
gen.
taconne
genitive
taconne
tacojenne
partitive
tacoanne
tacojanne
inessive
tacossanne
tacoissanne
elative
tacostanne
tacoistanne
illative
tacoonne
tacoihinne
adessive
tacollanne
tacoillanne
ablative
tacoltanne
tacoiltanne
allative
tacollenne
tacoillenne
essive
taconanne
tacoinanne
translative
tacoksenne
tacoiksenne
abessive
tacottanne
tacoittanne
instructive
comitative
—tacoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
taconsa
taconsa
accusative
nom.
taconsa
taconsa
gen.
taconsa
genitive
taconsa
tacojensa
partitive
tacoaan tacoansa
tacojaan tacojansa
inessive
tacossaan tacossansa
tacoissaan tacoissansa
elative
tacostaan tacostansa
tacoistaan tacoistansa
illative
tacoonsa
tacoihinsa
adessive
tacollaan tacollansa
tacoillaan tacoillansa
ablative
tacoltaan tacoltansa
tacoiltaan tacoiltansa
allative
tacolleen tacollensa
tacoilleen tacoillensa
essive
taconaan taconansa
tacoinaan tacoinansa
translative
tacokseen tacoksensa
tacoikseen tacoiksensa
abessive
tacottaan tacottansa
tacoittaan tacoittansa
instructive
comitative
—tacoineen tacoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* tacokuori
* taconkuori

### Further reading

* “taco”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.t͡ʃo/, [ˈt̪a.t͡ʃo]
* Rhymes: -t͡ʃo
* Hyphenation: ta‧co

### Noun

taco (plural taco-taco)
* (cooking) Alternative spelling of tako (“taco”)

### Further reading

* “taco” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish taco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: tà‧co

### Noun

taco m (plural tacos)
* (cooking) taco (Mexican snack food)

### Further reading

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑀘𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* तचो (Devanagari script)
* তচো (Bengali script)
* තචො (Sinhalese script)
* တစော or တၸေႃ (Burmese script)
* ตโจ or ตะโจ (Thai script)
* ᨲᨧᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕໂຈ or ຕະໂຈ (Lao script)
* តចោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄌𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

taco
* nominative singular of taca (“skin”)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.t͡sɔ/
* Rhymes: -at͡sɔ
* Syllabification: ta‧co

### Noun

taco f
* vocative singular of taca

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ku/
* Rhymes: -aku

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Spanish taco.

#### Noun

taco m (plural tacos)
* (sports) cue; bat; stick (any long implement used to hit the ball or puck in certain sports)
* (Brazil) bete-ombro

##### Derived terms

* tacada
* tacar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish taco.

#### Noun

taco m (plural tacos)
* taco (a Mexican snack food)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

taco
* first-person singular present indicative of tacar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtako/ [ˈt̪a.ko]
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: ta‧co

### Etymology 1

Uncertain, probably borrowed from Italian tacco; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“spike, nail”).

#### Noun

taco m (plural tacos)
* (Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, cooking) taco
* peg (a short, thick piece of wood, metal, or other material)
* dowel (a longer piece of wood, plastic, or other material)
** (sports) cue (a stick used to play billiards, snooker, pool, etc)
*** (colloquial, Peru, Bolivia) billiards
*** (slang, Venezuela, Ecuador) billiards player
*** (colloquial, Peru) pool hall
** (Rioplatense, sports) polo-stick; mallet
* stopper, plug, wad (small bundle of material made to cover, stop, or fill a hole)
* (Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Andes, Dominican Republic, Cono Sur) heel (of a shoe)
** (Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia) cleats
    Synonym: tachones
** (colloquial, Colombia) shoe
* (Chile) traffic jam
* (Spain) curse word, swear word
    Synonyms: juramento, palabrota, voto
    Empezó a soltar tacos. ― He started swearing.
* (Spain, colloquial) a load, a lot
    Synonym: montón
* (Spain, colloquial, in the plural) years of age
    Synonyms: año, primavera
    Hoy cumplo veinticinco tacos. ― Today, I turn twenty-five years old.

##### Derived terms

* atacar
* taco chino
* taco de ojo
* tacón
* taquería
* taquito
* taquiza

##### Descendants

* → English: taco

##### See also

* billar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

taco
* first-person singular present indicative of tacar

### Further reading

* taco on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$
* “taco”, 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
* “taco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “taco”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
* taco | Diccionario • DELE Ahora

### Anagrams

* acto, cato, cota, toca

## Swedish
### Noun

taco c
* (cooking) a taco
    Vi borde äta tacos ikvällWe should have tacos tonight

#### Usage notes

* The plural "tacos" refers to the dish, like in English, and occasionally also to a single taco.
* People sometimes think of "tacos" as a dish in the singular, giving "tacosen [one definite plural form] var god [singular]" instead of "tacosen var goda [plural]" for multiple tacos. That might have affected that particular definite plural form, which is a bit unintuitive otherwise. Compare how "the leftover pizza" can refer to multiple pizzas.

#### Derived terms

* tacoskal (“taco shell”)

### References

* taco in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Venetan
### Etymology

Compare Italian tacco.

### Noun

taco m (plural tachi)
* heel