# banco
## English
### Etymology 1

From in banco, from Latin in banco.

#### Adjective

banco (not comparable)
* 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)
* (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.
* (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.
* ↑ “banco, adj.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “banco, n.$^1$ and adj.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “banco, int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* bacon, coban, Bonac, Bacon

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

banco (plural bancos)
* 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: /ˈbaŋko/ [ˈbɑŋ.kʊ]
* Rhymes: -aŋko
* Hyphenation: ban‧co

### Noun

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, page 105:saluo duas meſas grandes et dous vancos que ſon do biſpowith the exception of two large tables and two benchs, that belong to the bishop
* workbench
* sandbank
* school, shoal
* (nautical) thwart
* 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* 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
* ↑ "banco" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* 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)

##### 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
* first-person singular present indicative of bancare

### Anagrams

* bacon

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɐ̃.ku/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
* Hyphenation: ban‧co

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

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 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
* first-person singular present indicative of bancar

### Further reading

* “banco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbaŋko]

### Noun

banco f
* vocative singular of bancă

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbanko/ [ˈbãŋ.ko]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* 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)
* bank (financial institution)
* bench
    Synonym: (dated) escaño
* pew
* 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
* 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10