banco
English
Adjective
banco (not comparable)
- Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.
See also
Noun
banco
- (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
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Adjective
banco (plural bancos)
Galician
Alternative forms
- branco (archaic)
Etymology
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
Noun
banco m (plural bancos)
- 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
- saluo duas meſas grandes et dous vancos que ſon do biſpo
- 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:
- workbench
- sandbank
- school, shoal
- (nautical) thwart
- bank
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vanco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “banco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
Etymology
From Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
banco m (plural banchi)
- desk
- counter (in a bank, etc.)
- bench, table
- stall (selling goods)
- dock (in a court)
- shoal (of sand)
- floe (of ice)
- bank (institution to place or borrow money)
- bank (of fog, clouds, sand)
- school (of fishes)
- pawnshop (banco dei pegni)
- reef (of corals)
Descendants
Verb
banco
Portuguese
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ban‧co
Noun
banco m (plural bancos)
- bank (financial institution)
- bank (safe place for storage and retrieval of items)
- bench (long seat)
- (sports) bench (place where players of a sport sit when not playing)
- (hydrology) bank (a shallow area in a body of water)
- Clipping of banco de dados.
Derived terms
- banquinho (diminutive)
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Descendants
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
From Old French bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Compare English bench and bank.
Pronunciation
Noun
banco m (plural bancos)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “banco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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