bianco

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Italian bianco, Dalmatian blank, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

bianco

1. white
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.

     Dear, with that little white and red face.

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco).

Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“blank, white”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). Doublet of blanco. More at blink, blind.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjan.ko/

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: biàn‧co

bianco (feminine bianca, masculine plural bianchi, feminine plural bianche, superlative bianchissimo, diminutive biancolìno or (rare) bianchétto or (rare) bianchìno or (rare) biancùccio, augmentative (rare) biancóne, pejorative biancàccio)

1. white (bright and colourless/colorless)

   Antonym: nero

• → German: blanko
• → Istriot: bianco
• → Sabir: bianco
• → Sardinian: biancu

bianco m (plural bianchi)

1. white (the color of snow or milk)

   Antonym: nero

2. blank
3. linen

bianco m (plural bianchi, feminine bianca)

1. white man, white person

• bacino, cibano