balcon
See also: balcón
English
Noun
balcon (plural balcons)
- 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.
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal.kɔ̃/
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “balcon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /balˈkon/
Noun
balcon n (plural balcoane)
- (architecture) balcony
- El stă pe balcon.
- He is sitting on the balcony.
- (slang) boob, tit
- Are niște balcoane imense!
- She has huge tits!
Declension
declension of balcon
Venetian
Etymology
Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.
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