balcon
See also: balcón
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Noun edit
balcon (plural balcons)
- Obsolete form of balcony.
- 1665 June 1, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys[1], volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:
- That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian balcone.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balcon m (plural balcons)
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Descendants edit
- → Danish: balkon
- → Greenlandic: balkonngi
- → Dutch: balkon
- → German: Balkon
- → Ottoman Turkish: بالقون (balkon)
- → Polish: balkon
- → Romanian: balcon
- → Russian: балко́н (balkón)
- → Vietnamese: ban công
Further reading edit
- “balcon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
Etymology edit
Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetian balcon.
Noun edit
balcon m (plural balcons)
Romanian edit
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balcon n (plural balcoane)
- (architecture) balcony
- El stă pe balcon.
- He is sitting on the balcony.
- (slang) boob, tit
- Are niște balcoane imense!
- She has huge tits!
Declension edit
Declension of balcon
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) balcon | balconul | (niște) balcoane | balcoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) balcon | balconului | (unor) balcoane | balcoanelor |
vocative | balconule | balcoanelor |
Venetian edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.
Noun edit
balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)
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Etymology edit
Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).
Noun edit
balcon