Sancho
See also: sanchō
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Sancho
- (card games) The nine of trumps in the game of Sancho Pedro.
- An assistant or sidekick, from Cervantes’ Sancho Panza.
- 1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 6, in Crocker’s Hole, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 6:
- “It was my privilege to accompany this hero, as his humble Sancho.”
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Basque Santxo. Alternatively, possibly from the Late Latin Sānctius, from Latin sānctus.
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Sancho m
- a male given name
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Further reading edit
- “Sancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014