Latin origin
Source-reportedFrom Latin Pīcus.
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- Wiktionary: PicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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Language context for this entry: Italian
/ˈpi.ko/ · Italian
01 / Meaning & origin
Pico is a masculine given name documented in Italian. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Pīcus.
From Latin Pīcus.
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04 / Through time
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Pico— “woodpecker”
Picus was another old Italian deity who used to be represented with a woodpecker on his head. Whether he or the woodpecker first had the name of Picus does not appear; but in English that term passed to the pyot or magpie, and some recurrence to old tradition caused Pico to be revived in Italy in the person of the famous Pico de Mirandola and his namesakes.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter V (Names From Roman Deities), Section V (Old Italian Deities) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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