banco

Italian (Fiorentino)

noun
Definitions
  • desk
  • counter (in a bank, etc.)
  • bench, table
  • stall (selling goods)
  • dock (in a court)
  • shoal (of sand)
  • floe (of ice)
  • bank (institution to place or borrow money)
  • bank (of fog, clouds, sand)
  • school (of fishes)
  • pawnshop (banco dei pegni)
  • reef (of corals)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old High German bank derived from *banki derived from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (bench, counter, bulge, hillock).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*bankiz

Gloss

bench, counter, bulge, hillock

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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