branco

Abbreviation of brancardier.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.ko/

branco m (plural brancos)

1. (military, colloquial) stretcher-bearer

From Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaŋkʊ/

branco m (feminine singular branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas)

1. white (colour)

From branca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbran.ko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: bràn‧co

branco m (plural branchi)

1. flock (of sheep)
2. pack (of wolves or dogs)
3. gang (of people)

branco (feminine branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas)

1. white

From Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾã.ko/

branco m (plural brancos, feminine branca, feminine plural brancas)

1. white
   • 1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, A 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)

     […] mia ſennor branca e / uermella.

     […] my lady of white skin and / reddish face.

• Fala: blãcu
• Galician: branco
• Portuguese: branco
  • Angolar: baanku
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: branku
  • Indo-Portuguese: branco
  • Kabuverdianu: bránku
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: brak
  • Kristang: brangku
  • Principense: baanku
  • Sãotomense: blanku

From Old Portuguese branco (“white”), from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus. The feminine is a doublet of Bianca.

Cognate with Galician branco, Spanish blanco, Catalan, Occitan, and French blanc, Italian bianco and English blank.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Hyphenation: bran‧co

branco m (plural brancos)

1. white (color)

   Synonym: (poetic) alvo

   1. (heraldry) argent
   2. white clothing
2. (Brazil, informal) blackout (failure in recalling something)

   Me deu um branco na prova!

   I couldn’t remember anything during the test!

3. (oenology) Ellipsis of vinho branco.

branco m (plural brancos, feminine branca, feminine plural brancas)

1. a white person

   Synonyms: (formal and relatively uncommon) caucasiano, (derogatory) branquelo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:branco.

branco (feminine branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas, comparable, comparative mais branco, superlative o mais branco or branquíssimo, diminutive branquinho, augmentative brancão)

1. white in color
2. (of a person) white; Caucasian

   Synonym: (formal and relatively uncommon) caucasiano

3. (of a person) pale; pallid

   Synonym: pálido

4. white (lightest in color compared to similar objects)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:branco.

• Angolar: baanku
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: branku
• Indo-Portuguese: branco
• Kabuverdianu: bránku
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: brak
• Kristang: brangku
• Principense: baanku
• Sãotomense: blanku