beco

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɛ.ko]

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar (“to subsidize (a student), to give a stipend to”)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbe.ko]

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar (“to snooze, to nap”)

Word of uncertain etymology: some favor borrowing from German Bock (“male goat”), or becch, a word imitating the bleating of the goat; others propose an onomatopoeic base *bek and a pre-Roman Alpine substrate reflected in the Latin ibicem (“wild goat”); still others propose an origin in Latin ībex expanded to Vulgar Latin *ibeccus.

beco m

1. beak
2. ram
3. adulterer

From the upper sense, due to its agility.

beco m

1. grasshopper, locust
2. (figurative) mobile, agile

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, pages 115-116
• Cergna, Sandro (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC

Possibly from Latin via + -eco, cf. Italian vico.

• Hyphenation: be‧co

beco m (plural becos)

1. alley

   Synonyms: ruela, travessa, viela

• “beco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “beco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeko/ [ˈbe.ko]
• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: be‧co

beco

1. first-person singular present indicative of becar

beco m (plural bechi)

1. beak, bill (of a bird)