Whig vs politico

Whig and politico both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Whig	Yes	No	No	No
politico	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, politico is a hypernym of Whig; that is, politico is a word with a broader meaning than Whig:

Whig: a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
politico: a person active in party politics

Other hypernyms of Whig include pol, political leader, politician.

Whig (noun)	politico (noun)
a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories	a person active in party politics
a supporter of the American Revolution
a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War