different between bunco vs banco

English

Alternative forms

• bunko

Etymology

Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Noun

bunco (countable and uncountable, plural buncos or buncoes)

1. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
2. (uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
3. A brigand.

Derived terms

• bunco squad
• bunco-steerer

Verb

bunco (third-person singular simple present buncos, present participle buncoing, simple past and past participle buncoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

English

Adjective

banco (not comparable)

1. Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.

See also

• en banc

Noun

banco

1. (attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

   banco money

   • 1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe

     On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.

Derived terms

• in banco

Anagrams

• Bacon, Bonac, bacon

French

Adjective

banco (plural bancos)

1. banco

Galician

Alternative forms

• branco (archaic)

Etymology

12th century in local Latin texts. With the meaning of bank, from Italian; with the meaning of bench and workbench probably from Old French; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?ko?/

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bench
   • 1414, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI, Coimbra: INIC, page 105:

     saluo duas me?as grandes et dous vancos que ?on do bi?po

     with the exception of two large tables and two benchs, that belong to the bishop

2. workbench
3. sandbank
4. school, shoal
5. (nautical) thwart
6. bank

Derived terms

• abancar
• bancal

References

• “vanco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “banco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “banco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “banco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ban.ko/

Noun

banco m (plural banchi)

1. desk
2. counter (in a bank, etc.)
3. bench, table
4. stall (selling goods)
5. dock (in a court)
6. shoal (of sand)
7. floe (of ice)
8. bank (institution to place or borrow money)
9. bank (of fog, clouds, sand)
10. school (of fishes)
11. pawnshop (banco dei pegni)
12. reef (of corals)

Descendants

Includes descendants from banca. Some may be via other European languages. All are borrowed.

Verb

banco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bancare

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b??.ku/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b??.ku/, [?b???.k?]
• Hyphenation: ban?co

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. bank (safe place for storage and retrieval of items)
3. bench (long seat)
4. (sports) bench (place where players of a sport sit when not playing)
5. (hydrology) bank (a shallow area in a body of water)
6. Clipping of banco de dados.

Derived terms

• banquinho (diminutive)

Related terms

• banca

Descendants

• ? Kadiwéu: baanco
• ? Malay: bangku
  • Indonesian: bangku
  • ? Iban: bangku
• ? Malayalam: ?????? (b??k?)
• ? Marathi: ??? (b?k)
• ? Sinhalese: ?????? (bæ?kuwa)

Further reading

• “banco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba?ko]

Noun

banco f

1. vocative singular of banc?

Spanish

Etymology

From Old French bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Compare English bench and bank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?banko/, [?bã?.ko]

Noun

banco m (plural bancos)

1. bank
2. bench
3. pew
4. school of fish

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “banco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.