banco

See also: Banco, bancó, and bancò

English

Adjective

banco (not comparable)

1. Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.

See also

• en banc

Noun

banco

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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 banco in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Derived terms

• in banco

Anagrams

• Bacon, Bonac, bacon

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French

Adjective

banco (plural bancos)

1. banco

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Galician

Alternative forms

• branco (archaic)

Etymology

12th century in local Latin texts. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋko̝/

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bench
   • 1414, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), 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

Derived terms

• abancar
• bancal

References

• “vanco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Italian

Etymology

From Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

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

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

• Amharic: ባንክ (bank)
• Asturian: bancu, banca
• Catalan: banc, banca
• Cimbrian: bånka
• Corsican: banca
• Czech: banka
• English: banco
• Galician: banco
• Hebrew: בנק‎ (bánk)
• Kurdish: bank
• Lombard: banca
• Maltese: bank
• Mòcheno: pònk
• Occitan: banca
• Palatine German: Bongg
• Plautdietsch: Bank
• Portuguese: banco (see there for further descendants), banca
• Romanian: bancă
• Romansch: banca
• Rusyn: банка (banka)
• Scottish Gaelic: banca
• Slovene: banka
• Somali: banki, bangi
• Spanish: banco, banca
• Tigrinya: ባንክ (bank)

Verb

banco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bancare

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Portuguese

banco

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɐ̃.ku/
• Hyphenation: ban‧co

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• banquinho (diminutive)

• amargar banco
• bancar
• bancário
• banco de dados
• banqueiro
• esquentar banco

 

Related terms

• banca

Descendants

• → Kadiwéu: baanco
• → Malay: bangku
  • Indonesian: bangku
  • → Iban: bangku
• → Malayalam: ബാങ്ക് (bāṅkŭ)
• → Marathi: बाक (bāk)
• → Sinhalese: බැංකුව (bæṁkuva)

Further reading

• “banco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋko]

Noun

banco f

1. vocative singular of bancă

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanko/, [ˈbãŋko]

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bank
2. bench
3. pew
4. school of fish

Derived terms

• asaltabancos
• bancazo
• Banco Central Europeo
• banco de datos
• banco de hielo
• banco de liquidación
• banco de prensa
• banco de sangre
• banquero
• robabancos

 

Related terms

• banca
• bancario
• banquero
• banqueta
• banquillo

 

Descendants

• → Basque: banku
• → Cebuano: bangko
• → Hiligaynon: bangko
• → Kapampangan: bangku
• → Karao: bangko
• → Limos Kalinga: bangku
• → Tagalog: bangko

Further reading

• “banco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.