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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”).
Cognate with Galician escano, Portuguese escano, Italian scanno, and more distantly Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈkaɲo/
- Rhymes: -aɲo
- Syllabification: es‧ca‧ño
Noun
escaño m (plural escaños)
- (politics) seat (membership in an organization, particularly a representative body)
- Synonyms: asiento, banca, curul
2020 July 13, “Feijóo conquista su cuarta mayoría absoluta y Urkullu se refuerza”, in El País:Los resultados de los socialistas, sin embargo, fueron más modestos, un leve ascenso en votos que les reportó un escaño más.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dated) bench
- Synonym: banco
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