blanco

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæŋkəʊ/

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.

• Blacon, balcon

From Vulgar Latin *blancus.

blanco m sg (feminine singular blanca, masculine plural blancos, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “blanco”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

blanco

1. neuter of blancu

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃.ko/

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

   Synonyms: blanc, correcteur liquide, tipex

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

blanco (plural blancos)

1. white person, usually a white man

• blanc

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

blanco m (plural blancos)

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

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”), through a Vulgar Latin *blancus. Found as early as the Cantar de Mio Cid[1].

Compare Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”). Cognate with English blank, Dutch blank, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanko/ [ˈblãŋ.ko]

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: blan‧co

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

1. white

   Synonym: (poetic) albo

   Antonym: negro

2. (heraldry) argent

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. white

   Antonym: negro

2. target

• de punta en blanco

• Chavacano: blangko, blangku
• Papiamentu: blancu

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