banc

• IPA^(key): /bæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk
• Homophone: bank

From Middle English bank, from Old French banc. Doublet of banco, bank, and bench.

banc (plural bancs)

1. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
2. A tribunal or court.
   • 1822, House of Lords, The Sessional Papers 1801-1833, volume 137, page 91:

     all the banc business of each county must be done in that county

• en banc, in banc, court in banc

• banco

Respelling of bank.

banc (plural bancs)

1. (US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank

• “banc”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Texas Finance Code [1]

• NBCA, bacn

Of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbaŋk]

banc m (plural bancs)

1. bench
2. bank (for money)
3. bank (geographical feature)
4. shoal (of fish)

• → Gallurese: bancu
• → Sardinian: bancu (Logudorese), → bangu (Campidanese)
• → Sassarese: bancu

• “banc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old High German banc, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Doublet of banque.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃/

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• Homophones: ban, bancs, bans

banc m (plural bancs)

1. bench (seat)
2. bank (mass of material, of cloud, fog, etc)
3. bank, shoal, school (of fish)

• → Breton: bank
• → English: banc
• → Romanian: bancă
• → Sango: bâan
• → Turkish: bank

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

• bainc

• IPA^(key): /bˠaŋk/
• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠɑʊŋk/^[1]
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bʲæŋk/^[2] (as if spelled beanc)

Borrowed from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of binse.

banc m (genitive singular bainc, nominative plural bainc or bancanna)

1. (banking, etc.) bank (financial institution; branch of such an institution; safe and guaranteed place of storage)

• panc

Borrowed from Middle English banke, from Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.

banc m (genitive singular bainc, nominative plural bainc or bancanna)

1. (geography) bank (of a river or lake)

• bancán m (“(small) bank”) (of earth)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “banc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “banc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “banc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

banc f or m

1. bench, seat
2. judicial bench

• Dutch: bank (see there for further descendants)
  • Afrikaans: bank
• Limburgish: bank

• “banc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “banc”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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banc m (plural bancs)

1. (Jersey) seat, bench
2. (Jersey, nautical) thwart

• banc d'sablion (“sandbank”)

From Proto-West Germanic *banku, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *banki and *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, *bankô, respectively.

• IPA^(key): /bɑnk/, [bɑŋk]

banc f

1. bench
2. hillock; barrow

Strong ō-stem:

• benċ
• hōbanca

• Middle English: bank, banke
  • English: bank
  • Scots: bank

Borrowed from French banc.

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banc n (plural bancuri)

1. sand bank

• IPA^(key): /baŋk/

Borrowed from English bank,^[1] from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of mainc.

banc m (plural banciau)

1. bank (financial institution)

Borrowed from Middle English banke, from Old English banca, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.^[1]

banc m (plural banciau)

1. rising ground, hill, slope
2. bank (in a sea or river, e.g. sandbank, mudbank)
3. bank (of a river or lake)

   Synonym: glan

• banc tywod (“sandbank”)