bancal
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bancal (plural bancales)
- An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.
- 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 217:
- A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basané, completed the furniture of the apartment.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bancal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bancal m (plural bancals)
- storage bench
- a piece of carpet or cloth covering furniture
- bed, plot, terrace, parcel (agricultural)
- Synonym: feixa
- predella
Further reading edit
- “bancal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan bancal, from Medieval Latin bancālis, from the base of Proto-Germanic *bankiz + -alis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bancal (feminine bancale, masculine plural bancals, feminine plural bancales)
- bow-legged, bandy-legged (of person)
- rickety, wobbly (of table etc.)
- shaky, unclear, illogical
Further reading edit
- “bancal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since the 14th century. From banco (“bench”) + -al.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bancal m (plural bancais)
- bancal
- 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:
- mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes
- I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other rugs that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a tablecloth, no bancals
- 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:
Related terms edit
References edit
- “bancal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “bançaes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “bancal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “bancal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “bancal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
bancal m (plural bancales)
- plot (of land, for planting)
Further reading edit
- “bancal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Noun edit
bancal m (plural bancałi)
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