balcon
See also: balcón
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
balcon (plural balcons)
- Obsolete form of balcony.
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1665 June 1, Pepys, Samuel, 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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AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from Italian balcone
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
balcon m (plural balcons)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “balcon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”) from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetian balcon.
NounEdit
balcon m (plural balcons)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
balcon n (plural balcoane)
- (architecture) balcony
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El stă pe balcon.
- He is sitting on the balcony.
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- (slang) boob, tit
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Are niște balcoane imense!
- She has huge tits!
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DeclensionEdit
declension of balcon
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
VenetianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.
NounEdit
balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)