balcon

See also: balcón

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Noun

balcon (plural balcons)

  1. Obsolete form of balcony.
    • 1665 June 1, Pepys, Samuel, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:
      That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

Anagrams


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balcone

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bal.kɔ̃/
  • (file)

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

  1. balcony

Derived terms

Further reading


Friulian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (beam), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (beam, pile, prop). Compare Venetian balcon.

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

  1. window

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /balˈkon/

Noun

balcon n (plural balcoane)

  1. (architecture) balcony
    El stă pe balcon.
    He is sitting on the balcony.
  2. (slang) boob, tit
    Are niște balcoane imense!
    She has huge tits!

Declension


Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (beam, pile, prop). Compare Italian balcone.

Noun

balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

  1. window
  2. shutter

Synonyms


Zazaki

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).

Noun

balcon ?

  1. eggplant
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