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

• blango
• bllanco (Ribagorçan)

From Early Medieval Latin blancus.

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

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

1. white

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

blanco

1. neuter of blancu

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

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

blanco (not comparable)

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

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

• blank

• 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

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). 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

   Synonyms: (poetic) albo, (obsolete) obo

   Antonym: negro

2. (heraldry) argent

   Synonym: argento

blanco m (plural blancos)

1. white

   Antonym: negro

2. target, bullseye

   Synonym: diana

• Chavacano: blangko, blangku
• Papiamentu: blancu

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)

blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa, rosado

• “blanco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• balcón