escano

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese escano, attested in the Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin scamnum. Cognate with Portuguese escano, Spanish escaño and Italian scanno.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkano̝/

escano m (plural escanos)

1. bench with backrest
2. (dated) kind of stretcher used for moving and holding a corpse
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 179:

     Poys que elles forõ ydos, fezo dõna Lanbra poer hũu escano en meo de seu curral, guisado et cuberto de panos com̃o para morto.

     After they were gone, Lady Lanbra ordered to put a stretcher in the middle of her yard, prepared and covered with clothes as if it was for a death person

• (bench): banco
• (stretcher): andas

• “escano” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “escano” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “escano” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escano” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

escano

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of uscire
2. third-person plural imperative of uscire

• oscena
• secano

From Latin scamnum.

• IPA^(key): /es̺.ˈka.no/

escano m

1. bench
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 323 (facsimile):

     nẽ niun dano fezeran nẽ eno leito nẽ na meſa nẽ no ſcan^o

     they did no damage to the bed, to the table or to the bench.

• Galician: escano
• Portuguese: escano

• escanho

From Old Portuguese escano, from Latin scamnum.

Cognate with Galician escano, Spanish escaño and Italian scanno. Doublet of escanho.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iʃ.ˈkɐ.nu/
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧no

escano m (plural escanos)

1. bench
2. footstool

• (bench): banco
• (footstool): escabelo