balcón

balcón m (plural balcones)

1. balcony

• balcom (Reintegrationist)
• balcão (Reintegrationist)

Probably borrowed from Italian balcone, although it is already attested in local documents since the mid of the 14th century; from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, plank”). Cognate with Portuguese balcão, Spanish balcón, French balcon, English balcony.

• IPA^(key): /balˈkoŋ/

balcón m (plural balcóns)

1. balcony
   • 1347, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 425:

     que façan et ergan en maneyra que non entargem o viso das feestras do balcon da outra mina casa que esta a so nesta

     that they do and erect so as they don't obstruct the view of the windows of the balcony of my other house which is near this one

2. parapet

• balconada

• palco

• “balc” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “balcon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “balcon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “balcón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “balcón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Italian balcone, ultimately of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /balˈkon/ [balˈkõn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bal‧cón

balcón m (plural balcones)

1. balcony

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

• blanco