Noun: mecco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: mèc‧co
| Singular m | mecco |
| Plural m | mecchi |
Sample Sentences
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Non pensi tu che in ciel sia più giustizia,
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malfusso, ladro, strupatore e mecco,
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fornicator, uom pien d’ogni malizia,
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ruffian, briccone, e sacrilego e becco? (You don't think there's any more justice in heaven, do you, you wretch, thief, rapist and adulterer, fornicator, man full of malice, pander, scoundrel, sacrileger and cuckold?) [1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimoquarto [Fourteenth Canto]”, in Morgante, Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 283:]
Nouns inflected like mecco
sbrego,
sbergo,
sbarco,
sbocco,
sbieco,
sarago,
scacco,
scalco,
scinco,
diftongo,
smacco,
smergo,
slargo,
guidalesco,
pacciugo,
antiscialagogo,
rinfresco,
granturco,
pappalecco,
rinfianco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin moechus, from Ancient Greek μοιχός (moikhós). See: Latin Nouns '
moechus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μοιχός'.
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