Fromin banco , fromLatin in banco .[ 1]
banco (notcomparable )
Being or relating to a type ofcourt involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court. FromItalian banco .[ 2] [ 3] Doublet ofbanc ,bank , and bench .
banco (plural bancos )
( attributive ) Abank , especially that ofVenice ;formerly used to indicate bankmoney , as distinguished from thecurrent money when it has becomedepreciated .banco money
1941 , Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power,The Cambridge Economic History of Europe :On account of the great confidence placed on them, paymentsinbanco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.
( gambling ) Inbaccarat orchemin de fer , abet on the banker hand.1953 ,Ian Fleming , chapter 4, inCasino Royale ,page23 :Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a highbanco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.
^ “banco,adj. 2 ”, inOED Online , Oxford:Oxford University Press , launched 2000. ^ “banco,n. 1 andadj. 1 ”, inOED Online , Oxford:Oxford University Press , launched 2000. ^ “banco,int. ”, inOED Online , Oxford:Oxford University Press , launched 2000. banco (plural bancos )
banco 12th century in local Latin texts.[ 1] With the meaning ofbank , fromItalian ; with the meaning ofbench andworkbench probably fromOld French ; ultimately fromProto-Germanic *bankiz ( “ bench, counter ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ( “ to turn, curve, bend, bow ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈbaŋko/ [ˈbɑŋ.kʊ] Rhymes:-aŋko Hyphenation:ban‧co banco m (plural bancos )
bench 1414 , Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor,História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI , Coimbra: INIC, page105 :saluo duas meſas grandes et dousvancos que ſon do biſpo with the exception of two large tables and twobenchs , that belong to the bishop workbench sandbank school ,shoal ( nautical ) thwart bank Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “vanco ”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “banco ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “banco ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “banco ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN ^ "banco" inGallaeciae Monumenta Historica .Borrowed fromLombardic bank , fromProto-West Germanic *banki , fromProto-Germanic *bankiz .Doublet ofbanca andpanca .
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)Includes descendants frombanca . Some may be via other European languages.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
banco
first-person singular present indicative ofbancare
Rhymes:-ɐ̃ku Hyphenation:ban‧co banco Borrowed fromItalian banco , fromOld High German bank , fromProto-Germanic *bankiz .
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 ofbanco de dados .banco
first-person singular present indicative ofbancar banco f
vocative singular ofbancă IPA (key ) : /ˈbanko/ [ˈbãŋ.ko] Rhymes:-anko Syllabification:ban‧co Borrowed fromOld French bank , fromProto-Germanic *bankiz . CompareEnglish bench andbank .
banco m (plural bancos )
bank ( financial institution ) bench Synonym: ( dated ) escaño pew school offish Synonym: cardumen banco
first-person singular present indicative ofbancar