# mico
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish or Portuguese mico.

### Noun

mico (plural micos)
* A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.

#### Usage notes

* The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

#### Synonyms

* (Mico melanurus): black-tailed marmoset

### References

* “mico”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* ICOM, omic

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mico.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmi.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmi.ko]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

mico m (plural micos)
* monkey

### Further reading

* “mico” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mico”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mico” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mico” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to shimmer”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmi.koː/, [ˈmɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmi.ko/, [ˈmiːko]

### Verb

micō (present infinitive micāre, perfect active micuī or micāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
* to vibrate, quiver
* to twinkle, glitter, flash, gleam, beam, shine, to be bright
    Synonyms: candeō, splendeō, niteō, ēniteō, fulgeō, resplendeō
* to tremble
* to beat (of the pulse)

#### Conjugation

* The normal Classical perfect is micuī. Perfect micāvī is found extremely rarely in Classical use, but is common in Medieval Latin.
* There is a supine mictum, found in Priscian, but it is not in use.

#### Derived terms

* dīmicō
* ēmicō
* intermicō
* micatio
* praemicō
* prōmicō
* supermicō

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Italian: ammiccare

### References

* “mico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “mico”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 86

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.ku/
* Rhymes: -iku
* Hyphenation: mi‧co

### Etymology 1

From a Cariban language, likely via Spanish mico.

#### Noun

mico m (plural micos)
* (Brazil) any of several very small and long-tailed monkeys, such as capuchins and marmosets
    Synonym: sagui
* (Can we verify this sense?) (Minho) the devil

##### Derived terms

* mico-de-cheiro
* mico-estrela
* mico-leão
* mico-leão-de-cara-preta
* mico-leão-dourado

##### Descendants

* → Chinese: 搣咕

### Etymology 2

Short for mico-preto, a children's card game where the players have to amass pairs of matching cards, and the card that traditionally depicts a small monkey is the only one without a pair.

#### Noun

mico m (plural micos)
* (Brazil) gaffe, blunder, faux pas (an embarrassing mistake or situation)
    Synonyms: gafe, (Brazil) papelão, micagem
    pagar mico ― to make a blunder

##### Derived terms

* micar
* pagar mico

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mico
* first-person singular present indicative of micar

### References

* ↑ “mico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “mico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

### Further reading

* “mico”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “mico”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “mico”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “mico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “mico”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “mico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Cumanagoto [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiko/ [ˈmi.ko]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: mi‧co

### Noun

mico m (plural micos)
* a monkey with a prehensile tail
    Synonyms: mono, (Mexico) chango
* (familiar) child
* an ugly person
* (Nicaragua) vulva
* (coastal Ecuador) a blonde person

#### Derived terms

* aguacate de mico
* mico araña
* mico de noche
* mico dorado
* mico rayado
* micoleón

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: mico
* → Chayuco Mixtec: micu
* → Isthmus Zapotec: migu
* → Mecayapan Nahuatl: mi̱coj
* → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mico

### Further reading

* “mico”, 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

## Tetelcingo Nahuatl
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mico.

### Noun

mico
* monkey

### References

* Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 30, 141