palco

From Lombardic balko (“beam”) from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg'- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare German Balken, English balk.

• Rhymes: -alko

palco m (plural palchi)

1. stand, platform
2. (theater, music) stage

   Synonym: palcoscenico

3. (theater) box
4. (zoology) antler
5. scaffold, scaffolding

• catafalco (via consonant shift)
• palchista
• palcoscenico
• sottopalco

• balcone

• → Portuguese: palco
• → Spanish: palco

• colpa
• placo, placò
• polca

Borrowed from Italian palco (“stand; stage”), from Lombardic balko (“beam”) from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg'- (“beam, pile, prop”). Cognate to Portuguese balcão.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ko/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɫ.ku/
• Rhymes: -awku

palco m (plural palcos)

1. stage (of a theatre)
2. (figuratively) a location where something important happens

• palco elisabetano
• palco giratório
• palco italiano

• palco on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

From Italian palco, doublet of balco (now usu. balcone), balcony.

palco m (plural palcos)

1. (theater) box
2. bench