blanco

See also: Blanco

English

Verb

blanco (third-person singular simple present blancos, present participle blancoing, simple past and past participle blancoed)

1. (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

• balcon

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Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

1. white

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “blanco”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃.ko/

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Synonyms

• blanc
• correcteur liquide
• tipex

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Interlingua

Noun

blanco (plural blancos)

1. white person, usually a white man

Related terms

• blanc

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Italian

Etymology

Spanish (from the colour of their strip).

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. (soccer) A Real Madrid football player (in plural - the team)

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Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”), through a Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus. Found as early as the Cantar de Mio Cid. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanko/ [ˈblãŋ.ko]

• Audio (Mexico):

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Adjective

blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

   Synonym: (poetic) albo

   Antonym: negro

2. (heraldry) argent

Derived terms

• agujero blanco
• ajoblanco
• álamo blanco
• aliblanco
• arce blanco
• arma 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
• cariblanco
• carta blanca
• Casa Blanca
• cheque en blanco
• chocolate blanco
• coliblanco
• coroniblanco
• deporte blanco
• elefante blanco
• en blanco
• en blanco y negro
• enana blanca
• garza blanca
• línea blanca
• magia blanca
• manjar blanco
• mar Blanco
• materia blanca
• negro sobre blanco
• oso blanco
• pizarra blanca
• poner los ojos en blanco
• rinoceronte blanco
• ruso blanco
• salsa blanca
• sustancia blanca
• tiburón blanco
• trata de blancas
• vino blanco

 

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. white

   Antonym: negro

2. target

Derived terms

• de punta en blanco

Descendants

• Chavacano: blangko, blangku
• Papiamentu: blancu

See also

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)

blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa, rosado

Further reading

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