picon.

Brit.

/ˈpiːkəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpikoʊ/

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Spanish. Or (ii) a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish pico; Portuguese pico.

Etymology: < Spanish pico (1085) or Portuguese pico (1427), both < the same Romance base as Spanish pico pickaxe (see pike n.¹); compare post-classical Latin picum (977 in a Spanish source), Old Occitan, Occitan pic (c1350 in a source from the Pyrenees), and also Catalan pica (1309), all in sense ‘peak, summit’. French pico (1665–6 in the passage translated in quot. 1687 at peak n.² 7a) is < Spanish. Compare earlier pike n.⁵, and also pic n.², peak n.²A parallel sense development to the one observed in Ibero-Romance from ‘point, pointed object’ to ‘peak, summit’ occurred independently in related words in other languages, compare Norwegian regional pik pike n.²

A peak or mountain; the conical or pointed summit of a mountain. Cf. pic n.²Chiefly in proper names of mountains of conical form, esp. the Pico de Teide on Tenerife (cf. pike n.⁵).

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit > pointed

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1596 J. White Fifth Voy. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations III. 294 The 26. we came to Faial, where the Admiral with some other of the fleete ankred, othersome plyed vp and downe betweene that and the Pico vntill midnight.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 4 This high Pico rises from the middle part of the Isle [Teneriffe].

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 171 These calcined rocks lie for three or four miles almost round the bottom of the Pico.

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 206 Yet there is one of them [sc. the Cheviot Hills] a great deal higher than the rest, which, at a Distance, looks like the Pico-Teneriffe in the Canaries.

1840 T. Moore Poet. Wks. I. 210 The only envious cloud that lowers Hath hung its shade on Pico's height.

1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster III. xxvii. 64 Then I would learn..whether Mount Caucasus be higher than the Pico of Teneriffe.

1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 July (1987) 648 The sun like buttered toast Drips upon the classic terra, Upon swimming pool and pillar, Loggia, lemon, pineclad pico.

1990 Mountain Nov. 52/1 (advt.) We've got guidebooks to gentle strolls in the Black Forest or desperate climbs in the Picos de Europa.

2000 Explore Worldwide Brochure 2001–2 14 The road winds past..vivid green pastures before reaching the western massif of the Picos.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pico
释义	picon. Brit. /ˈpiːkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpikoʊ/ Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Spanish. Or (ii) a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish pico; Portuguese pico. Etymology: < Spanish pico (1085) or Portuguese pico (1427), both < the same Romance base as Spanish pico pickaxe (see pike n.¹); compare post-classical Latin picum (977 in a Spanish source), Old Occitan, Occitan pic (c1350 in a source from the Pyrenees), and also Catalan pica (1309), all in sense ‘peak, summit’. French pico (1665–6 in the passage translated in quot. 1687 at peak n.² 7a) is < Spanish. Compare earlier pike n.⁵, and also pic n.², peak n.²A parallel sense development to the one observed in Ibero-Romance from ‘point, pointed object’ to ‘peak, summit’ occurred independently in related words in other languages, compare Norwegian regional pik pike n.² A peak or mountain; the conical or pointed summit of a mountain. Cf. pic n.²Chiefly in proper names of mountains of conical form, esp. the Pico de Teide on Tenerife (cf. pike n.⁵). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit > pointed pike1243 pico1596 peak1613 pic1658 obelisk1705 horn1820 1596 J. White Fifth Voy. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations III. 294 The 26. we came to Faial, where the Admiral with some other of the fleete ankred, othersome plyed vp and downe betweene that and the Pico vntill midnight. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 4 This high Pico rises from the middle part of the Isle [Teneriffe]. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 171 These calcined rocks lie for three or four miles almost round the bottom of the Pico. 1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 206 Yet there is one of them [sc. the Cheviot Hills] a great deal higher than the rest, which, at a Distance, looks like the Pico-Teneriffe in the Canaries. 1840 T. Moore Poet. Wks. I. 210 The only envious cloud that lowers Hath hung its shade on Pico's height. 1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster III. xxvii. 64 Then I would learn..whether Mount Caucasus be higher than the Pico of Teneriffe. 1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 July (1987) 648 The sun like buttered toast Drips upon the classic terra, Upon swimming pool and pillar, Loggia, lemon, pineclad pico. 1990 Mountain Nov. 52/1 (advt.) We've got guidebooks to gentle strolls in the Black Forest or desperate climbs in the Picos de Europa. 2000 Explore Worldwide Brochure 2001–2 14 The road winds past..vivid green pastures before reaching the western massif of the Picos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : pico-comb. form < n.1596 see also
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