banco

See also: Banco, bancó, bancò, bàn cờ, Ban Cơ, and Bàn Cổ

English

Etymology 1

From in banco, from Latin in banco.

Adjective

banco (not comparable)

1. Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.

See also

• en banc

Etymology 2

From Italian banco. Doublet of banc, bank, and bench.

Noun

banco (plural bancos)

1. (attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

   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, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.

2. (gambling) In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.
   • 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:

     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 high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

References

• “banco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bacon, coban, Bonac, Bacon

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

banco (plural bancos)

1. banco

Further reading

• “banco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

• branco (archaic)

Etymology

12th century in local Latin texts. With the meaning of bank, from Italian; with the meaning of bench and workbench probably from Old French; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋko̝/

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. 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, page 105:

     saluo duas meſas grandes et dous vancos que ſon do biſpo

     with the exception of two large tables and two benchs, that belong to the bishop

2. workbench
3. sandbank
4. school, shoal
5. (nautical) thwart
6. bank

Derived terms

• abancar
• bancal

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vanco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “banco”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “banco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈban.ko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: bàn‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lombardic bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of banca and panca.

Noun

banco m (plural banchi)

1. desk
2. counter (in a bank, etc.)
3. bench, table
4. stall (selling goods)
5. dock (in a court)
6. shoal (of sand)
7. floe (of ice)
8. bank (institution to place or borrow money)
9. bank (of fog, clouds, sand)
10. school (of fishes)
11. pawnshop (banco dei pegni)
12. reef (of corals)

Descendants

Includes descendants from banca. Some may be via other European languages.

• → Amharic: ባንክ (bank)
• → Arabic: بنك (bank)
• → Asturian: bancu, banca
• → Catalan: banc, banca
• → Cimbrian: bånka
• → Corsican: banca
• → Czech: banka
• → English: banco
• → Galician: banco
• → German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: בנק (bánk)
• → Northern Kurdish: bank
• → Lombard: banca
• → Maltese: bank
• → Mòcheno: pònk
• → Occitan: banca
• → Palatine German: Bongg
• → Plautdietsch: Bank
• → Portuguese: banco (see there for further descendants), banca
• → Romanian: bancă
• → Romansch: banca
• → Carpathian Rusyn: банка (banka)
• → Scottish Gaelic: banca
• → Slovene: banka
• → Somali: banki, bangi
• → Spanish: banco, banca
• → Tigrinya: ባንክ (bank)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

banco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bancare

Anagrams

• bacon

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɐ̃.ku/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Hyphenation: ban‧co

Etymology 1

banco

Borrowed from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. bank (safe place for storage and retrieval of items)
3. bench (long seat)
4. (sports) bench (place where players of a sport sit when not playing)
5. (hydrology) bank (a shallow area in a body of water)
6. Clipping of banco de dados.

Derived terms

• amargar banco
• bancar
• bancário
• banco de dados
• banqueiro
• banquinho (diminutive)
• esquentar banco

 

Related terms

• banca

 

Descendants

• → Gujarati: બાંક (bā̃k), બાંકડો (bā̃kḍo)
• → Kadiwéu: baanco
• → Konkani: बांक (bāṅka)
• → Malay: bangku
  • Indonesian: bangku
  • → Iban: bangku
  • → Ternate: bangku
• → Malayalam: ബാങ്ക് (bāṅkŭ)
• → Marathi: बाक (bāk)
• → Sinhalese: බැංකුව (bæṁkuwa)

Etymology 2

Verb

banco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bancar

Further reading

• “banco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋko]

Noun

banco f

1. vocative singular of bancă

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanko/ [ˈbãŋ.ko]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: ban‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Compare English bench and bank.

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. bench

   Synonym: (dated) escaño

3. pew
4. school of fish

   Synonym: cardumen

Derived terms

• amoladora de banco
• asaltabancos
• autobanco
• bancazo
• banco central
• Banco Central Europeo
• banco comercial
• banco de alimentos
• banco de arena
• banco de datos
• banco de hielo
• banco de inversiones
• banco de la paciencia
• banco de liquidación
• banco de negocios
• banco de niebla
• banco de piedra
• banco de prensa
• banco de pruebas
• banco de sangre
• Banco Mundial
• banquero
• billete de banco
• esmeril de banco
• estar en el banco
• herrar o quitar el banco
• pata de banco
• pie de banco
• razón de pie de banco
• robabancos
• salida de pie de banco
• tornillo de banco

 

Related terms

• banca
• bancario
• banquero
• banqueta
• banquillo

 

Descendants

• → Basque: banku
• → Cebuano: bangko
• → Hiligaynon: bangko
• → Kapampangan: bangku
• → Karao: bangko
• → Limos Kalinga: bangku
• → Tagalog: bangko

Etymology 2

Verb

banco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bancar

Further reading

• “banco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28