balcon

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Noun

balcon (plural balcons)

1. Obsolete form of balcony.
   • 1665 June 1, Pepys, Samuel, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:

     That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

Anagrams

• Blanco

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balcone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal.kɔ̃/

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Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. balcony

Further reading

• “balcon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”) from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetian balcon.

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. window

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /balˈkon/

Noun

balcon n (plural balcoane)

1. (architecture) balcony

   El stă pe balcon.

   He is sitting on the balcony.

2. (slang) boob, tit

   Are niște balcoane imense!

   She has huge tits!

Alternative forms

• balcón, barcon, barcón

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.

Noun

balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

1. window
2. shutter

Alternative forms

• bancan

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).

Noun

balcon ?

1. eggplant