# escano
## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escano (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin scamnum, 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: [esˈkanʊ]

### Noun

escano m (plural escanos)
* bench with backrest
    Synonym: banco
* (dated) bier, kind of stretcher used for moving and holding a corpse
    Synonyms: andas, cadaleito
** 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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 bier in the middle of her yard, prepared and covered with clothes as if prepared for a dead person

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escano”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escano”, 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), “escano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Verb

escano
* inflection of uscire:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* Ascone, Cesano, casone, oscena, secano

## Old Galician-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: /es̺.ˈka.no/

### Noun

escano m (plural escanos)
* 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

## 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈkɐ̃.nu/, /esˈkɐ̃.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈkɐ̃.nu/, /esˈkɐ̃.nu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃˈkɐ̃.nu/, /eʃˈkɐ̃.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /esˈkɐ.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃˈkɐ.nu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃˈkɐ.nu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃˈka.nu/
* Hyphenation: es‧ca‧no

### Noun

escano m (plural escanos)
* bench
    Synonym: banco
* footstool
    Synonym: escabelo

### Further reading

* “escano”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024