balcón

balcón m (plural balcones)

1. balcony

• balcom, 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/ [bɑɫˈkoŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: bal‧cón

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

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “balc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “balcon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “balcon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “balcón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “balcón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “balcón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• blanco