mico

From Spanish or Portuguese mico.

mico (plural micos)

1. A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.

• The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

• (Mico melanurus): black-tailed marmoset

• “mico”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• ICOM, omic

Borrowed from Spanish mico.

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

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mico m (plural micos)

1. monkey

• “mico”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mico”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mico” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mico”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to shimmer”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.ko]

micō (present infinitive micāre, perfect active micuī or micāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to vibrate, quiver
2. to twinkle, glitter, flash, gleam, beam, shine, to be bright

   Synonyms: candeō, splendeō, niteō, ēniteō, fulgeō, resplendeō

3. to tremble
4. to beat (of the pulse)

• The standard Classical perfect is micuī; micāvī is occasionally found in Classical use, but is common in Medieval Latin.
• The supine mictum is prescribed by Priscian, but it is not in use.

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 378-379

• Rhymes: -iku
• Hyphenation: mi‧co

From a Cariban language, likely via Spanish mico.^[1][2]

mico m (plural micos)

1. (Brazil) any of several very small and long-tailed monkeys, such as capuchins and marmosets

   Synonym: sagui

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Minho) the devil

• → Chinese: 搣咕

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.

mico m (plural micos)

1. (Brazil) gaffe, blunder, faux pas (an embarrassing mistake or situation)

   Synonyms: gafe, (Brazil) papelão, micagem

   pagar mico ― to make a blunder

• micar
• pagar mico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mico

1. first-person singular present indicative of micar

• “mico”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mico”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “mico”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “mico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mico”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Cumanagoto [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiko/ [ˈmi.ko]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: mi‧co

mico m (plural micos)

1. a monkey with a prehensile tail

   Synonyms: mono, (Mexico) chango

2. (familiar) child
3. an ugly person
4. (Nicaragua) vulva
5. (coastal Ecuador) a blonde person

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

• “mico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish mico.

mico

1. monkey

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962), Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano; Secretaría de Educación Pública, published 1971, pages 30, 141