account number

English

Noun

account number (plural account numbers)

1. (banking) A number used to identify a bank account.

Translations

banking

• Czech: číslo účtu
• Danish: kontonummer (da)
• Dutch: rekeningnummer (nl) n
• Finnish: tilinumero
• French: numéro de compte m
• German: Kontonummer (de)
• Polish: numer konta m, numer rachunku m, konto (pl) n
• Spanish: account number m, número de cuenta m
• Svedish: kontonummer (sv)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English account number.

Noun

account number m (plural account numbers)

1. (US) account number

   Synonym: número de cuenta

Usage notes

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Moreno Fernández, Francisco (2018), “account number”, in Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish), New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, →DOI, →ISBN‎^[2]