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)

metic

Anagrams

comete

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(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)

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

Spanish

Noun

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

metic

Further reading

“meteco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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