blanco

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæŋkəʊ/

Verb

blanco (third-person singular simple present blancos, present participle blancoing, simple past and past participle blancoed)

1. (transitive) To polish using Blanco.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 604:

     The Independence celebrations were coming, contingents of police had to be drilled and blancoed and starched before proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to represent the state.

   • 2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything ......: A Life-Story of Fear, Heartbreak, Love, Trickery and Triumph

     Eddie went back to his sea cadets, leading the band on Sunday mornings. He always looked very smart. He used to spend most of Saturday evening blancoing his kit and pressing his blue uniform.

Anagrams

• Blacon, balcon

Aragonese

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Alternative forms

• blango
• bllanco (Ribagorçan)

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: blan‧co

Adjective

blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “blanco”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “blanco”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Adjective

blanco

1. neuter of blancu

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bianco, with replacement of -i- with -l- under influence from cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑŋ.koː/
• Hyphenation: blan‧co
• Rhymes: -ɑŋkoː

Adjective

blanco (not comparable)

1. blank; unwritten or not filled with printing, painting or other marks

Inflection

Related terms

• blank

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃.ko/

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

   Synonyms: blanc, correcteur liquide, tipex

Further reading

• “blanco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

blanco (plural blancos)

1. white person, usually a white man

Related terms

• blanc

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish (from the colour/color of their strip). Doublet of bianco.

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. (soccer) a Real Madrid football/soccer player
2. (soccer, in the plural) the Real Madrid football/soccer team

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Found as early as the Cantar de Mio Cid.

Compare Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”). Cognate with English blank, Dutch blank, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: blan‧co

Adjective

blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

   Synonyms: (poetic) albo, (obsolete) obo

   Antonym: negro

2. (heraldry) argent

   Synonym: argento

Derived terms

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. white

   Antonym: negro

2. target, bullseye

   Synonym: diana

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chavacano: blangko, blangku
• Papiamentu: blancu

See also

References

Further reading

• “blanco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• balcón