loco
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See also: locò
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Italian.
Adverb
loco (not comparable)
- (music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
Etymology 2
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Adjective
loco (comparative more loco, superlative most loco)
- (colloquial) Crazy.
- 1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit:
- It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!
- 1988, Phil Collins (lyrics and music), “Loco in Acapulco”, in Indestructible, performed by Four Tops:
- Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong
- 1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:
- Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?
- 2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:
- Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco
- 2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:
- You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.
- (Southwestern US) Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
- Synonym: pea struck
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Noun
- A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
- Synonym: locoweed
Verb
loco (third-person singular simple present locos, present participle locoing, simple past and past participle locoed)
- (transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.
- 1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner:
- They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
Related terms
Etymology 3
Clipping of locomotive.
Noun
loco (plural locos)
- (rail transport, informal) A locomotive.
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, “.007”, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243:
- A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94:
- Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
loco f (plural locos)
Further reading
- “loco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Noun
loco (plural locos)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).
Noun
loco m (plural lochi or (obsolete, regional) locora f)
- (archaic, now poetic) Alternative form of luogo (“place, location”)
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- ["]Noi siam venuti al loco ov’i’ t’ ho detto / che tu vedrai le genti dolorose / c’ hanno perduto il ben de l’intelletto".
- "We have come to the place wherein I told you that you will see the tormented people who have lost the good of intellect."
- 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
- le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, li quali se ponevano nelle locora famose dove demoravano moititudine de iente (Rome)
- accounts were made through incisions on rocks and gravestones, which were placed in famed places, where moltitudes of people lived
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin illōc but influenced in its form by Etymology 1.
Adverb
loco
- (Old Italian, now only dialectal) there, in that place
- c. 1260s, Brunetto Latini, chapter VII, in Il tesoretto [The small treasure], lines 769–774; collected in Luigi Di Benedetto, editor, Poemetti allegorico-didattici del secolo XIII [Allegorical-didactical poems from the 13th century], Bari: Laterza, 1941, page 25:
- Questi hanno per ofizio
che lo bene, e lo vizio,
li fatti, e le favelle
ritornano ale celle
ch’i’ v’agio nominate,
e loco son pensate.- Their [the senses'] task is [to see to it] that the good, and the vices, the facts, and the words return to the spaces I have mentioned, and there they're thought.
Etymology 3
Verb
loco
Further reading
- loco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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