franco

From Italian franco (“French”). Doublet of franc and frank.

franco (plural francos)

1. (historical) The currency issued between 1805 and 1808 of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy.

• franc

• lira

From Franco-.

franco (plural francos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Franco.
   • 1977, Report on Confederation:

     The anglos have seen the whole of the country, and the continent, as hospitable, while the francos have over a long period come to view Quebec as their real homeland.

   • 1998, Dick Bird, Never the Same Again: A History of VSO, Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     Something similar had occurred in Canada, where first of all the sector is divided between anglos and francos; […]

   • 2011, Katharine Goodland, John O’Connor, A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance since 1991, volumes 3 (Canada and USA), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 153:

     “Language is always an issue in Quebec and here’s a play that both anglos and francos will have a language problem with,” Ackerman says.

From Italian porto franco.

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franco (not comparable)

1. with freightages paid by the sender

• → Caribbean Javanese: prangko
• → Indonesian: prangko (“postage stamp”)
  • → Petjo: prangko, perangko

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrant͡so]
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• Rhymes: -ant͡so
• Hyphenation: fran‧co

franco (accusative singular francon, plural francoj, accusative plural francojn)

1. a French person

   Hypernym: eŭropano

• francino (“Frenchwoman”)

From Late Latin francus (“Frankish”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”).

The adjectival forms, from Old French franc (“free”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraŋko̝/

franco m (plural francos, feminine franca, feminine plural francas)

1. Frank
2. (archaic) Frenchman

   Synonym: francés

3. franc (former currency of France and other countries)
   • 1401, M. Lucas Alvarez; M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 276:

     uendo, segundo dito he, por doze francos d'ouro da moneda del rey de França

     I sell, as said, for twelve francs of gold, of the coinage of the king of France

franco (feminine franca, masculine plural francos, feminine plural francas)

1. tax-free

   Synonym: exento

2. free, unobstructed

   Synonym: libre

3. sincere, true

   Synonym: sincelo

4. (archaic) generous

   Synonym: xeneroso

• “franco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “franco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “franco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “franco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Borrowed from French franc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfran.ko/

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: fràn‧co

franco (feminine franca, masculine plural franchi, feminine plural franche)

1. frank, candid
2. free (of duty)

   franchi tiratori ― snipers

3. Frankish

franco

1. frankly

franco m (plural franchi)

1. Frank (Frankish person)
2. franc (money)

• → Cimbrian: franko

• franco in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• franco in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• frànco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfran.koː/, [ˈfräŋkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfran.ko/, [ˈfräŋko]

francō

1. inflection of francus:
   1. dative masculine/neuter singular
   2. ablative masculine singular

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese franco, from French franc.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Homophone: Franco
• Hyphenation: fran‧co

franco (feminine franca, masculine plural francos, feminine plural francas)

1. free, unimpeded
2. tax-free
3. frank (bluntly honest)
4. (historical) Frankish (referring to the Franks)

   Synonym: frâncico

franco m (plural francos)

1. franc (former currency of France and Belgium)
2. franc (any of several units of currency)
3. Frank (one of the Franks)

• “franco” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “franco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “franco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “franco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “franco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Middle French franc, from Medieval Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Franko, from Proto-Germanic *frankô (literally “spear, javelin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾanko/ [ˈfɾãŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: fran‧co

franco m (plural francos)

1. franc (former currency of France and other countries)

franco (feminine franca, masculine plural francos, feminine plural francas)

1. frank, candid, straightforward
2. generous, liberal, openhanded
3. free, unimpeded, unencumbered
4. exempt, free
5. Frankish

• honesto

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