fianco

See also: fianĉo

Italian edit

From Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible", "to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”), see also Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle High German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”).

fianco m (plural fianchi)

flank, haunch (part of the body)
- 1984, Falco (lyrics and music), “Junge Roemer” (overall work in German):
  Un ballo nuovo porta ritmo nei fianchi della città
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
side
al mio fianco ― by my side

di fianco ― laterally
(poetic, metonymically) the whole body
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XVI — Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho”, in Il Canzoniere, line 5; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
  […] indi trahendo poi l’antiquo fianco […]
  Then dragging the old body from there […]