loco – Spanish noun declension

Noun: loco
Gender: m Hyphenation: lo‧co

Singular m	loco
Singular f	loca
Plural m	locos
Plural f	locas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like loco

botellero, paletero, metafísico, epistemólogo, gibareño, fiduciario, petromacorisano, evacuado, subprefecto, miliciano, gibelino, moguereño, angloamericano, sereno, serbio, gregario, seboso, sedero, cristiano, babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Uncertain.
2. Inherited from Old Spanish loco, perhaps from Andalusian Arabic لَوْقَاء (láwqa), from Arabic لَوْقَاء (lawqāʔ), feminine singular form of أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq, “stupid”), by reinterpreting the final Andalusian Arabic -a as the Ibero-Romance -a and back-forming the masculine with -o. Edward Roberts thinks the term is related to Arabic لَاق (lāq, “to soften”), but this verb is of root l-y-q, not l-w-q like أَلْوَق (ʔalwaq). Alternatively, derived from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “clear”). Compare Portuguese louco and Sicilian loccu. See: Portuguese Nouns 'louco'.

Verbs referencing "loco"

English Nouns loco, English Nouns locoweed, Galician Nouns louco, Portuguese Nouns louco, English Nouns loco moco.

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