banque

French banque (“bank”)

banque (plural banques)

1. Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”)

• Benuaq

From Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's table”), from Old High German bank, banch, banc (“counter, bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃k/

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banque f (plural banques)

1. bank

• bancaire

Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

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

From Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's table”), from Old High German bank, banch, banc (“counter, bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”).

banque f (plural banques)

1. bank (establishment where financial transactions take place)

• French: banque (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: banque
• → Middle English: banke
  • English: bank (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: baunk
  • → Irish: banc

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

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”).

banque f (plural banques)

1. (Jersey) bank

• bantchi¹ (“to bank”)
• bantchi² (“banker”)

banque

1. inflection of bancar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

banque

1. inflection of bancar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative