escano

See also: Escano and escaño

Galician

Escano once used for transporting the sick and deceased to the church

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese escano, attested in the Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Portuguese escano, Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkano̝/

Noun

escano m (plural escanos)

1. bench with backrest
2. (dated) bier, kind of stretcher used for moving and holding a corpse
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 179:

     Poys que elles forõ ydos, fezo dõna Lanbra poer hũu escano en meo de seu curral, guisado et cuberto de panos com̃o para morto.

     After they were gone, Lady Lanbra ordered to put a stretcher in the middle of her yard, prepared and covered with clothes as if it was for a death person

   Synonym: cadaleito

Synonyms

• (bench): banco
• (stretcher): andas

References

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• “escano” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

escano

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of uscire
2. third-person plural imperative of uscire

Anagrams

• oscena
• secano

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺.ˈka.no/

Noun

escano m

1. bench
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 323 (facsimile):

     nẽ niun dano fezeran nẽ eno leito nẽ na meſa nẽ no ſcan^o

     they did no damage to the bed, to the table or to the bench.

Descendants

• Galician: escano
• Portuguese: escano

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• escanho

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escano, from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Galician escano, Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá). Doublet of escanho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iʃ.ˈkɐ.nu/
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧no

Noun

escano m (plural s)

1. bench

   Synonym: banco

2. footstool

   Synonym: escabelo

Further reading

• “escano” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.