flaco

flaco

1. neuter of flacu

From Spanish flaco.

flaco

1. thin

Borrowed from Spanish flaco (“skinny”). Doublet of fraco.

flaco (feminine flaca, masculine plural flacos, feminine plural flacas)

1. (Rio Grande do Sul, especially of an animal) feeble; frail

• “flaco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

From Latin flaccus, perhaps an early borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflako/ [ˈfla.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: fla‧co

flaco (feminine flaca, masculine plural flacos, feminine plural flacas, superlative flaquísimo)

1. skinny, thin, slim

   Synonyms: delgado, fleje

   Antonym: gordo

• → Copala Triqui: lacó
• → Papiamentu: flaku

flaco m (plural flacos, feminine flaca, feminine plural flacas)

1. a thin man
2. (colloquial, Rioplatense, Colombia) used to address someone without using their name
3. (colloquial, Rioplatense) a young man
4. (colloquial, Peru) boyfriend

flaco m (plural flacos)

1. (informal, euphemistic) urine, urination, number one

• “flaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “flaco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 906
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “flaccus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 593