"Jos Koot" <jos.k...@telefonica.net> writes: > As adjective the Castilian (Spanish) word 'rico' also means rich, > handsome, fruitful (of soil), precious, delicious/nutritious (of > food). As substantive it also means darling or the substantive related > to the adjective such as rich person, etc.
Yes, of course! For some reason, i didn't think of the 'rich' meaning, which is as common, if not more, as the yummy one. > That's what my dictionary says and more importantly the senses in > which I hear the word being used in Catalunya (when Catalan people > take the trouble to speak Castiliano) The word also belongs to the > Catalan language, I guess, but I know little of the Catalan language. (I think it doesn't. In Catalan it'd be ric) > Well, yourself being Spanish, you probably can add even more senses. Only when used in rude slang :) jao _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev