bancar

From banco +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ban‧car

bancar (first-person singular present banco, first-person singular preterite banquei, past participle bancado)

1. (transitive) to fund, to finance
2. (colloquial, copulative) to behave like , to play

• The copulative sense is followed by the definite article, e.g. bancar o conquistador (“play the conqueror”).

• HOUAISS, Antônio and DE SALLES VILLAR, Mauro Minidicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2008.

Borrowed from Italian bancario or French bancaire.

bancar m or n (feminine singular bancară, masculine plural bancari, feminine and neuter plural bancare)

1. bank, banking

From banca.

• IPA^(key): /banˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ban‧car

bancar (first-person singular present banco, first-person singular preterite banqué, past participle bancado)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) to finance, pay for
2. (Argentina, Uruguay, reflexive) to stand, to put up with

   Synonyms: soportar, aguantar

• “bancar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16