meteco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin metoecus, from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos), from μετα- (meta-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈtɛ.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɛko
• Hyphenation: me‧tè‧co

Adjective

meteco (feminine meteca, masculine plural meteci, feminine plural meteche)

1. metic

Anagrams

• comete

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈtɛ.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈtɛ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈtɛ.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈtɛ.ku/

• Hyphenation: me‧te‧co

Noun

meteco m (plural metecos)

1. metic (in Ancient Greece, a resident alien without citizen rights)

Spanish

Noun

meteco m (plural metecos, feminine meteca, feminine plural metecas)

1. metic

Further reading

• “meteco”, 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