escaño

Spanish

noun
Definitions
  • (politics) seat membership in an organization, particularly a representative body
  • (dated) bench

Etymology

Inherited from Latin scamnum (bench, breadth of a field, ridge) inherited from Proto-Italic *skaβnom inherited from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*skabʰ-no-m

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