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banco

See also: Banco, bancó, bancò, bàn cờ, Ban Cơ, and Bàn Cổ

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From in banco, from Latin in banco.[1]

Adjective edit

banco (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Italian banco.[2][3] Doublet of banc, bank, and bench.

Noun edit

banco (plural bancos)

  1. (attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.
    banco money
    • 1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe:
      On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.
  2. (gambling) In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.
    • 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:
      Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

References edit

  1. ^ “banco, adj.2”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “banco, n.1 and adj.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^ “banco, int.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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French edit

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

banco (plural bancos)

  1. banco

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Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

12th century in local Latin texts.[1] With the meaning of bank, from Italian; with the meaning of bench and workbench probably from Old French; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

banco m (plural bancos)

  1. bench
    • 1414, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor, História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI, Coimbra: INIC, page 105:
      saluo duas meſas grandes et dous vancos que ſon do biſpo
      with the exception of two large tables and two benchs, that belong to the bishop
  2. workbench
  3. sandbank
  4. school, shoal
  5. (nautical) thwart
  6. bank

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References edit

  • “vanco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “banco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “banco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “banco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ "banco" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈban.ko/
  • Rhymes: -anko
  • Hyphenation: bàn‧co

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Lombardic bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of banca and panca.

Noun edit

banco m (plural banchi)

  1. desk
  2. counter (in a bank, etc.)
  3. bench, table
  4. stall (selling goods)
  5. dock (in a court)
  6. shoal (of sand)
  7. floe (of ice)
  8. bank (institution to place or borrow money)
  9. bank (of fog, clouds, sand)
  10. school (of fishes)
  11. pawnshop (banco dei pegni)
  12. reef (of corals)
Descendants edit

Includes descendants from banca. Some may be via other European languages.

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

banco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bancare

Anagrams edit

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
  • Hyphenation: ban‧co

Etymology 1 edit

 
banco

Borrowed from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun edit

banco m (plural bancos)

  1. bank (financial institution)
  2. bank (safe place for storage and retrieval of items)
  3. bench (long seat)
  4. (sports) bench (place where players of a sport sit when not playing)
  5. (hydrology) bank (a shallow area in a body of water)
  6. Clipping of banco de dados.
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

banco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bancar

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Romanian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

banco f

  1. vocative singular of bancă

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbanko/ [ˈbãŋ.ko]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -anko
  • Syllabification: ban‧co

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Old French bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Compare English bench and bank.

Noun edit

banco m (plural bancos)

  1. bank (financial institution)
  2. bench
    Synonym: (dated) escaño
  3. pew
  4. school of fish
    Synonym: cardumen
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

banco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bancar

Further reading edit

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