louco

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese louco, lauco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps[1] from Andalusian Arabic لَوَق (lawaq, “stupidity”), from Arabic لاق (lāq, “to soften”).[2] Compare Portuguese louco and Spanish loco.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈlowkʊ]

Noun

louco m (plural loucos, feminine louca, feminine plural loucas)

  1. madman
    Synonyms: doudo, tolo
    Cada louco coa sua teima (proverb) ― Each madman with his obsession
    • 1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 389:
      o dito Nuno da Praça que lle disera moitas maas palabras et desonrras et ynjurias, ontre las quaes diso que lle disera "vello royn, bébedo, louco, sandio, desuariado"
      said Nuno da Praza told him many bad words and affronts and defamations, among them he said that he was said "mean old man, drunkard, madman, fool, deslusional"

Adjective

louco (feminine louca, masculine plural loucos, feminine plural loucas)

  1. mad; insane; crazy; foolish
    Synonyms: doudo, tolo
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:
      Homes sandios et jente louqua, nõ deuedes a chamar Santiago caualeiro mais pescador que leixou o barquo et as redes ẽno mar de Galilea et foyse cõ Nostro Señor, et el fezoo pescador dos homes
      foolish men and mad people, you should not call Saint James a knight, but a fisherman who left his boat and the nets in the sea of Galilee and went with Our Lord, and He made him a fisherman of men

Derived terms

References
  • “louco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “louco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “louco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “louco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “louco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “loco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. Corriente, Federico (2008) “loco”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -owko

Adjective

louco m (plural loucos, feminine louca, feminine plural loucas)

  1. mad; insane; crazy; foolish

Noun

louco m (plural loucos, feminine louca, feminine plural loucas)

  1. madman

Descendants
  • Galician: louco
  • Portuguese: louco

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese louco, possibly from Andalusian Arabic لَوَق (lawaq, “stupidity”), from Arabic لاق (lāq, “to soften”). Compare Galician louco, Spanish loco and Sicilian loccu.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlo(w).ku/ [ˈlo(ʊ̯).ku]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlo(w).ko/ [ˈlo(ʊ̯).ko]
 

  • Rhymes: -owku, -oku
  • Hyphenation: lou‧co

Adjective

louco (feminine louca, masculine plural loucos, feminine plural loucas)

  1. crazy, mad, insane (of unsound mind)
    Synonyms: doido, insano, demente, insensato, maluco
  2. crazy (very unexpected; wildly surprising)

Derived terms

Noun

louco m (plural loucos, feminine louca, feminine plural loucas)

  1. a madman, a crazy person
    Synonyms: doido, demente, mentecapto, maluco

References
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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