English

Adverb

loco ‎(not comparable)

1. (music) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

From Spanish loco ‎(“insane, crazy”), from loco ‎(“loose”). From Arabic لَوَق ‎(lawaq, “foolishness”) or Ancient Greek γλαυκός ‎(glaukós, “clear”).

Adjective

loco ‎(comparative more loco, superlative most loco)

1. (colloquial) crazy
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 15 Dec 2003, p.56

     You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.

2. (western US) intoxicated by eating locoweed

Synonyms

• pea struck

Translations

Noun

loco ‎(plural locos or locoes)

1. Certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.

Synonyms

• locoweed

Related terms

• locoism

Verb

loco ‎(third-person singular simple present locos, present participle locoing, simple past and past participle locoed)

1. (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
2. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.
   • W. D. Howells

     the locoed novelist

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of locomotive.

Noun

loco ‎(plural locos)

1. (rail transport, informal, chiefly India and surrounding South Asian countries) a locomotive

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

• colo, Colo.
• cool, COOL

Interlingua

Noun

loco ‎(plural locos)

1. Place, location.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- ‎(“to put, place, locate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.ko/, [ˈl̺ɔːko]
• Hyphenation: lò‧co

Noun

loco m ‎(plural lochi)

1. (poetic) Archaic form of luogo.

Verb

loco

1. first-person singular present indicative of locare

Anagrams

• colo, colò

Latin

Etymology

From locus ‎(“place, location”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.koː/

Verb

locō ‎(present infinitive locāre, perfect active locāvī, supine locātum); first conjugation

1. I put, place, set.
2. I arrange, establish.
3. I lease, hire out, lend.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

locō

1. dative masculine singular of locus
2. ablative masculine singular of locus

References

• loco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• loco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “loco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) heights, high ground: loca edita, superiora
    
  • (ambiguous) rough and hilly ground: loca aspera et montuosa (Planc. 9. 22)
    
  • (ambiguous) level country; plains: loca plana or simply plana
    
  • (ambiguous) uncultivated districts: loca inculta
    
  • (ambiguous) deserts: loca deserta (opp. frequentia)
    
  • (ambiguous) pleasant districts; charming surroundings: loca amoena, amoenitas locorum
    
  • (ambiguous) to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) distant places: loca longinqua
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a place: discedere a, de, ex loco aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a place: egredi loco; excedere ex loco
    
  • (ambiguous) to quit a place for ever: decedere loco, de, ex loco
    
  • (ambiguous) not to stir from one's place: loco or vestigio se non movere
    
  • (ambiguous) to treat as one's own child: aliquem in liberorum loco habere
    
  • (ambiguous) my position is considerably improved; my prospects are brighter: res meae meliore loco, in meliore causa sunt
    
  • (ambiguous) how are you getting on: quo loco res tuae sunt?
    
  • (ambiguous) at this point the question arises: hoc loco exsistit quaestio, quaeritur
    
  • (ambiguous) our (not noster) author tells us at this point: scriptor hoc loco dicit
    
  • (ambiguous) Cicero says this somewhere: Cicero loco quodam haec dicit
    
  • (ambiguous) to set an ambuscade: insidias collocare, locare (Mil. 10. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to place some one in ambush: aliquem in insidiis locare, collocare, ponere
    
  • (ambiguous) to dwell in a certain place: domicilium (sedem ac domicilium) habere in aliquo loco
    
  • (ambiguous) to contract for the building of something: opus locare
    
  • (ambiguous) to give, undertake a contract for building a house: domum aedificandam locare, conducere
    
  • (ambiguous) of high rank: summo loco natus
    
  • (ambiguous) of illustrious family: nobili, honesto, illustri loco or genere natus
    
  • (ambiguous) of humble, obscure origin: humili, obscuro loco natus
    
  • (ambiguous) from the lowest classes: infimo loco natus
    
  • (ambiguous) a knight by birth: equestri loco natus or ortus
    
  • (ambiguous) to occupy a very high position in the state: in altissimo dignitatis gradu collocatum, locatum, positum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to receive tenders for the construction of temples, highroads: locare aedes, vias faciendas (Phil. 9. 7. 16)
    
  • (ambiguous) to let out public works to contract: locare opera publica
    
  • (ambiguous) to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
    
  • (ambiguous) to occupy the high ground: occupare loca superiora
    
  • (ambiguous) to encamp: castra ponere, locare
    
  • (ambiguous) in a favourable position: idoneo, aequo, suo (opp. iniquo) loco
    
  • (ambiguous) to drive the enemy from his position: loco movere, depellere, deicere hostem (B. G. 7. 51)
    
  • (ambiguous) to abandon one's position: loco excedere
    

Portuguese

Verb

loco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of locar

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Andalusian Arabic [script needed] ‎(lawqa). Compare Portuguese louco.

Adjective

loco m ‎(feminine singular loca, masculine plural locos, feminine plural locas)

1. crazy, insane, mad (asserting that something is out of place in the head).

   David está muy loco

   David's really crazy.

2. rash, risky, imprudent
3. tremendous, terrific, huge, enormous
4. overgrown, rambling
5. loose (pipe fittings, pulley)
6. sexy (only with "ser" ex. soy loco)

Synonyms

• (crazy): chiflado, desquiciado, pirado, trastornado

Noun

loco m ‎(plural locos, feminine loca)

1. (pejorative) A crazy person.
2. A highly affected homosexual; fruit.
3. A plant in the genus Astragalus or Oxytropis.

Related terms

See also

• demencia
• trastorno
• trastornar
• trastornado

Etymology 2

From Mapudungun

Noun

loco m ‎(plural locos)

1. (Chile) Chilean edible gastropod mollusk resembling abalone but is, in fact, a muricid (Concholepas concholepas)

Synonyms

• (abalone): abalón chileno

Anagrams

• coló