Porco
/ˈporko/noun
A pig or hog in Italian and related Romance languages.
Did you know?Porco comes from Latin *porcus*, the everyday word for a pig, and that same ancient root also gave us some of the oldest pig-words across Europe.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*porkos
“young pig; piglet”
Latin
Latin
porcus
“pig, hog”
Late Latin
Latin
porco
“pig”
Old Italian
Ital
porco
“pig; later also used as a vulgar insult”
Modern Italian
Italian
porco
“pig; boar; vulgar insult”