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Date "AMIGO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Amigo \A*mi"go\, noun; plural Amigos. [Spanish expression, from the Latin expression amicus.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A stick, tied to the end of a rope, on which workers sit when being raisedor lowered in shafts. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AMIGO | English | Advanced Messaging in Groups | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Phrase: " act a charity sometimes "; " a tender heart, a will inflexible "; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; " kind words are more than coronets "; quando amigo pide no hay manana; " the social smile, the sympathetic tear ". |
Friend | Phrase: amici probantur rebus adversis; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund; " best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness "; conocidos muchos amigos pocos; " friend more divine than all divinities "; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AMIGO |
| Non-English Usage: "AMIGO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Galician (friend), Portuguese (boyfriend, brother, bud, chap, chum, downstage, fond, friend, friendly, kind, kindly, matey, maty, nice, pal, pally, well-wisher), Portuguese Brazilian (friend), Spanish (boyfriend, buddy, chum, cobber, compeer, comrade, friend, friendly, lover, Mac, pal), Turkish (cheer leader). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The results are in amigo. What's left to ponder? (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph! (The Professionals; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Frank O'Rourke) What we're talking about is money, real money, Amigo money. (¡Three Amigos!; writing credit: Steve Martin; Lorne Michaels) | |
Lyrics | Adios, amigo, bye bye (Me, Myself and I; performing artist: Vitamin C) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Amigo campesino (1974) Mi amigo Luis (1972) Hey amigo bes mezar (1971) Ehi amigo... sei morto! (1971) Swing Ding Amigo (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wake up, amigo!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | El libro, el mejor amigo del convaleciente. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A subida do CDS ... : traz um amigo! que minguem figue em casa : CDS o voto certo, Portugal aos Portugueses. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Duplica o teu voto traz um amigo : CDS, o voto certo : Portugal aos Portugueses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "AMIGO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "AMIGO" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AMIGO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Amigo | Last name | 100 | 88,553 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Amigo, WV |
Expression using "AMIGO": vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "AMIGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | амиго (amigos). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AMIGO": amigos. (additional references) | |
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"AMIGO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abigo, Abiog, Aciego, Ahmidou, aig, aige, aigo, Aigu, Aimo, Almagro, Amado, Amagai, amage, amaro, Amaroo, ambig, ambigua, ambio, Amedo, Amegboh, Amego, amg, amgia, amgot, Amico, amig, amiga, amio, amog, Ampico, amyg, apigo, Armengol, armigo, Armijo, Ayivor, exigo, famicom, Magiglo, Maipo, marigo, Naigow, Ohmigod, omigo, onigo, samogon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AMIGO" (pronounced umē"gō') |
| 3 | -ē" g ō' | Sego. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: imago. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-o" | |
-1 letter: agio, magi, ogam. | |
-2 letters: ago, aim, ami, gam, goa, mag, mig, moa, mog. | |
-3 letters: ag, ai, am, go, ma, mi, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-o" | |
+1 letter: amigos, glioma, imagos. | |
+2 letters: angioma, coaming, foaming, gliomas, gourami, imagoes, isogamy, isogram, loaming, moaning, moating, oghamic, origami, roaming. | |
+3 letters: agnomina, agrimony, algorism, amidogen, angiomas, antismog, apogamic, armigero, armoring, bigamous, cambogia, cameoing, caroming, coamings, comaking, digamous, dogmatic, egomania, exogamic, flamingo, gasiform, gliomata, gloaming, gnomical, gouramis, guaiocum, homaging, ideogram, ignorami, isograms, kilogram, magnolia, majoring, mamboing, marigold, masoning, miaouing, miaowing, migrator, misogamy, nonimage, oghamist, oogamies, organism, orgasmic, origamis, origanum, picogram, pomading, vamosing, womaning. | |
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