blanco
See also: Blanco
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈblæŋkəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æŋkəʊ
Verb
[edit]blanco (third-person singular simple present blancos, present participle blancoing, simple past and past participle blancoed)
- (transitive) To polish using Blanco.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 604:
- The Independence celebrations were coming, contingents of police had to be drilled and blancoed and starched before proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to represent the state.
- 2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything ......: A Life-Story of Fear, Heartbreak, Love, Trickery and Triumph
- Eddie went back to his sea cadets, leading the band on Sunday mornings. He always looked very smart. He used to spend most of Saturday evening blancoing his kit and pressing his blue uniform.
Anagrams
[edit]Aragonese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Early Medieval Latin blancus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)
References
[edit]- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “blanco”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
- “blanco”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish blanco (“white”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian bianco, with replacement of -i- with -l- under influence from cognates.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco (not comparable)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of blanco | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | blanco | |||
| inflected | blanco | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | blanco | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | blanco | ||
| n. sing. | blanco | |||
| plural | blanco | |||
| definite | blanco | |||
| partitive | — | |||
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blanco m (plural blancos)
- correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex
- Synonyms: blanc, correcteur liquide, tipex
Further reading
[edit]- “blanco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]blanco (plural blancos)
Related terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish (from the colour/color of their strip). Doublet of bianco.
Noun
[edit]blanco m (plural blancos)
- (soccer) a Real Madrid football/soccer player
- (soccer, in the plural) the Real Madrid football/soccer team
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Found as early as the Cantar de Mio Cid.[1]
Compare Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”). Cognate with English blank, Dutch blank, etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)
- white
- 2020 September 10, Alexis Benveniste, “El listado Fortune 500 ahora tiene un número récord de mujeres CEO: apenas 39”, in CNN en Español[2]:
- Fraser se une a otras 38 mujeres en la lista de CEOs de Fortune 500, conformada en su mayoría por blancos y hombres.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- white (of light skin)
- (heraldry) argent
- Synonym: argento
Derived terms
[edit]- agárico blanco
- aguas blancas
- agujero blanco
- ajo blanco
- ajoblanco
- al rojo blanco
- álamo blanco
- algarrobo blanco
- alhelí blanco
- aliblanco
- arce blanco
- arma blanca
- azúcar blanca
- azúcar blanco
- bandera blanca
- beso blanco
- Blanca Nieves
- blanca y en botella, leche
- blanco apagado
- blanco como el papel
- blanco como la cera
- blanco como la pared
- blanco roto
- blancuzco
- blanquear
- blanquecino
- blanquísimo
- caballo blanco
- cabeciblanco
- canela blanca
- capuchino de frente blanca
- cariblanco
- carne blanca
- carta blanca
- Casa Blanca
- cedro blanco
- cheque en blanco
- chocolate blanco
- chorlitejo blanco
- cigüeña blanca
- coihue blanco
- coliblanco
- con guante blanco
- coroniblanco
- cuelliblanco
- curutié blanco
- deporte blanco
- elefante blanco
- emblanquecer
- en blanco
- en blanco y negro
- enana blanca
- esclava blanca
- espino blanco
- fiesta blanca
- flores blancas
- ganso blanco
- garza blanca
- glóbulo blanco
- grulla blanca
- hepática blanca
- humor blanco
- ibis blanco
- lanza blanca
- lechuza blanca
- libro blanco
- línea blanca
- lino blanco
- lisa blanca
- luz blanca
- madera en blanco
- magia blanca
- mangle blanco
- manjar blanco
- mar Blanco
- marca blanca
- materia blanca
- millar en blanco
- mimbrera blanca
- negro sobre blanco
- oro blanco
- oso blanco
- papel blanco
- pescado blanco
- petrel de barba blanca
- petrel de cuello blanco
- picaflor de garganta blanca
- pimienta blanca
- pizarra blanca
- playerito blanco
- poner los ojos en blanco
- quebracho blanco
- quetro de cabeza blanca
- rinoceronte blanco
- roble blanco
- ropa blanca
- ruso blanco
- salsa blanca
- salvia blanca
- sarandí blanco
- sustancia blanca
- tarro blanco
- tiburón blanco
- tola blanca
- tomillo blanco
- tortuga blanca
- trata de blancas
- trébol blanco
- vino blanco
- zanahoria blanca
Noun
[edit]blanco m (plural blancos)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]blanco m (plural blancos)
- a white person; a person of European descent
- Por aquí no hay blancos en este pueblo.
- There's no white people in this town.
- a person of any light-skinned group of people
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]| blanco | gris | negro |
| rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
| lima | verde | menta |
| cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, azul celeste, cerúleo | azul |
| violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa, rosado |
References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “blanco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “blanco”, 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
[edit]Venetan
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blanco
References
[edit]- Ferguson (2007), page 224: “blanco”
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