# macaco
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /məˈkeɪkəʊ/, /məˈkɑːkoʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Portuguese macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque.

#### Noun

macaco (plural macacos or macacoes)
* A macaque, or similar monkey.

### Etymology 2

From French mococo, probably ultimately from Malagasy maka, maki (“lemur”).
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#### Alternative forms

* macauco, maucaco

#### Noun

macaco (plural macacos or macacoes)
* (obsolete) Any of several species of lemur, including the white-headed lemur, ruffed lemur, and ring-tailed lemur.

##### Derived terms

* ring-tailed macaco, ring-tailed macauco
* crowned macauco

### Anagrams

* Cocama, accoma

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* macacco

### Etymology

From Portuguese macaco, possibly from a Bantu language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈka.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: ma‧cà‧co

### Noun

macaco m (plural macachi)
* macaque
* fool, dunce

## Mirandese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

macaco (plural macacos)
* monkey
* a person that imitates others
* a treacherous, deceitful person

### References

* “macaco” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈka.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /maˈka.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /maˈka.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɐˈka.ku/
* Rhymes: -aku
* Hyphenation: ma‧ca‧co

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include:
* from Kongo makaku (“monkeys”)
* from a language of Madagascar (compare macaco, macauco, maucaco (“any of several lemurs”), perhaps related to maky);
* from Kari'na macaca (“simian”), though it may have been loaned into Galibi from a language of African slaves;
* from dialectal French macao (“cat; monkey; long-tailed monkey”), allegedly used in Normandy and Berry.
* from Spanish muchacho;
* from Macau +‎ -aco.

#### Noun

macaco m (plural macacos, feminine macaca, feminine plural macacas)
* monkey; ape
    Synonyms: símio, mono
* (derogatory) ape; savage (an uncivilised or unruly person)
    Synonyms: bárbaro, selvagem
* (derogatory) monster; freak (a hideous person)
    Synonyms: monstro, aberração, mostrengo
* (Brazil, offensive, ethnic slur) monkey (derogatory term for a black person)

##### Usage notes

* A distinction is not commonly made between apes and monkeys in Portuguese. Where it is, mono is used for apes and macaco for middle-sized simians. A more common distinction is made between macacos and micos (“small, long-tailed simians”).

##### Derived terms

* cada macaco no seu galho
* ir pentear macacos
* macacada
* macacagem
* macacal
* macacão
* macacar
* macaco velho
* macaco-aranha
* macaco-barrigudo
* macaco-da-noite
* macaco-de-nariz-branco
* macaco-esquilo
* macaco-gritador
* macaco-inglês
* macaco-japonês
* macaco-leão
* macaco-prego
* macaco-vervet
* macacoa
* macacos me mordam
* macaquear
* macaqueiro
* macaquice
* macaquinho
* pente-de-macaco
* Rei Macaco

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: macaco
* → English: macaco
* → French: macaque
** Haitian Creole: makak
** → Bulgarian: макак (makak)
** → English: macaque
** → German: Makake
** → Romanian: macac
* → Italian: macaco
* → Spanish: macaco

#### Noun

macaco m (plural macacos)
* jack (device for raising and supporting a heavy object)

##### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Makack
* → Saramaccan: makáku

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

macaco
* first-person singular present indicative of macacar

### References

* ↑ Harry Johnston (1922) A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages‎, volume 2, pages 245-246
* ↑ “macaco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* ↑ 1955, Antenor Nascentes, Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 2nd print

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, possibly from a Bantu language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈkako/ [maˈka.ko]
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: ma‧ca‧co

### Noun

macaco m (plural macacos)
* macaque
* hobgoblin, bogeyman
* (South America, derogatory, offensive, racist) Brazilian
    Synonyms: brasileño, (colloquial) brasilero
* (Louisiana) monkey
    Synonyms: mono, chango, maimón, mico, simio

### Adjective

macaco (feminine macaca, masculine plural macacos, feminine plural macacas)
* (slang) ugly, misshapen, deformed, squat

### Further reading

* “macaco”, 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