meteco
Spanish, noun/meˈteko/
meteco is spelled M-E-T-E-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish, the 277,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meteco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “metic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does meteco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetic
adjective
- 1
colloquialderogatoryforeigner, foreign
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. En la antigua Grecia, extranjero residente en Atenas u otra ciudad, que no poseía derechos de ciudadano y que debía pagar un gran impuesto para vivir allí.
adjective: 1. Extranjero, forastero.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of meteco
- metecos plural
- meteca feminine
- metecas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meteco?
- /meˈteko/
- [meˈt̪e.ko]
- [meˈt̪eko]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to meteco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meteco in Spanish?
meteco appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).