blanco

See also: Blanco

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæŋkəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

blanco (third-person singular simple present blancos, present participle blancoing, simple past and past participle blancoed)

1. (transitive) To polish using Blanco.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 604:

     The Independence celebrations were coming, contingents of police had to be drilled and blancoed and starched before proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to represent the state.

   • 2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything ......: A Life-Story of Fear, Heartbreak, Love, Trickery and Triumph

     Eddie went back to his sea cadets, leading the band on Sunday mornings. He always looked very smart. He used to spend most of Saturday evening blancoing his kit and pressing his blue uniform.

Anagrams

• Blacon, balcon

Aragonese

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Alternative forms

• blango
• bllanco (Ribagorçan)

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanko/
• Syllabification: blan‧co
• Rhymes: -anko

Adjective

blanco (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “blanco”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “blanco”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Adjective

blanco

1. neuter of blancu

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bianco, with replacement of -i- with -l- under influence from cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑŋ.koː/
• Hyphenation: blan‧co
• Rhymes: -ɑŋkoː

Adjective

blanco (not comparable)

1. blank; unwritten or not filled with printing, painting or other marks

Declension

Declension of blanco
uninflected	blanco
inflected	blanco
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		blanco
indefinite	m./f. sing.	blanco
	n. sing.	blanco
	plural	blanco
definite		blanco
partitive		—

Related terms

• blank

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃.ko/

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

   Synonyms: blanc, correcteur liquide, tipex

Further reading

• “blanco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

blanco (plural blancos)

1. white person, usually a white man

Related terms

• blanc

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish (from the colour/color of their strip). Doublet of bianco.

Noun

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. (soccer) a Real Madrid football/soccer player
2. (soccer, in the plural) the Real Madrid football/soccer team