blanca

See also: Blanca

Asturian

Adjective

blanca

1. feminine singular of blancu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈblaŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈblaŋ.ka]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Adjective

blanca f sg

1. feminine singular of blanc

Dalmatian

Adjective

blanca

1. feminine singular of blank

References

• Bartoli, 1st ed., vol. 2, §304 column 163: “blánca”, column 174: “blank, blanca, blanke”; 2nd ed., page 299b, page 305a
• Ive (1886), page 166b: “blank, blánca, blánke”

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɫaŋ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈblaŋ.ka]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɫaŋ.kaː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈblaŋ.ka]

Adjective

blanca

1. inflection of blancus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

blancā

1. ablative feminine singular of blancus

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Adjective

blanca

1. feminine singular of blanc

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blankō, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine, white”). Compare Old High German blancros (“white horse”), Old French blanke (“sheep”), Old Norse blakkr (“horse, steed”), Old Norse Blanka (“the mythical horse of Thideric (Dietrich) of Bern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑn.kɑ/, [ˈblɑŋ.kɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑn.kɑ

Noun

blanca m

1. white (or grey) horse

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	blanca	blancan
accusative	blancan	blancan
genitive	blancan	blancena
dative	blancan	blancum

Related terms

• blanc
• blank
• blaunc
• blonc

Descendants

• Middle English: blanke, blonke

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanka/ [ˈblãŋ.ka]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: blan‧ca

Noun

blanca f (plural blancas)

1. (music) minim, half note

Adjective

blanca

1. feminine singular of blanco

Further reading

• “blanca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• bancal