Talk:Paco (disambiguation)

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Is this true or verifiable? Sounds sort of made up, like most heads of orders would have the same title of Pater Comunitatis. Fascinating nonetheless.islander 19:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

From the Spanish Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco_%28nombre%29):

Paco es un diminutivo familiar del nombre Francisco que viene del italiano Francesco.

Los filólogos han descartado que su origen provenga de San Francisco de Asís, el padre de la comunidad o Pater Comunitatis (Padre de la Comunidad, P.C.); tampoco se le otorga mayor credibilidad a la versión de la abreviatura de Phrancisco fuese Phco y que de ahí derive Paco.

''Todas las teorías apuntan a un origen hipocorístico -el modo de hablar de los niños- que haría que pronunciasen Francisco como Paquico, Panchico, etc.. La combinación de esta deformación infantil con la existencia del nombre ibero Pacciaecus (origen de Pancho y de Pacheco)parece ser la más fiable.''

Translation (excuse my english):

"Paco is a short name for Francisco, which comes from the italian Francesco. Filologues discarded the relation between Saint Francis of Asis -Pater Comunitas-, neither seems credible Phco as the name shrinking of Phrancisco, thus deriving Paco. Most theories point to a hipochoristic -how the child talk- misformation from the iberian Pacciaecus (root for Pancho and Pacheco), seems to be the most sound arguments."

As islander said, verifiable fonts are still to be found. Being called as "Paco" myself, my bet is for the hipochoristic/onomatopoeia child misspelling. faragon 00:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC+2)

I've linked the site where true etimology is proposed and the person who did it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.77.248.153 (talk) 11:32, 14 November 2007 (UTC)