banca

From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka.

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /bɐŋˈkaʔ/

banca (plural bancas)

1. (Philippines, nautical) A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout.
   • 1908, W. W. Pettit, “Fourth Grade Civics: 13th Meeting—Water Supply”, in Philippine Education‎^[1], volume 5, number 1, Manila, page 29:

     In towns on plains near the sea it is difficult to secure good water. The rivers are salt and water has to be carried in bancas many miles. An open banca is neither a clean nor a safe way to carry water.

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• bancu

banca f (plural banques)

1. (large) bench
2. bank (building)
3. bank (institution)
4. trough
5. pot (of a lottery)

From banc.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbaŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbaŋ.ka]

banca f (plural banques)

1. low bench
2. banking system

• “banca”, 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
• “banca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “banca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “banca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Of Germanic origin. Akin to Italian banca, see there for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanka/

banca f (plural banche)

1. bank

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• IPA^(key): /ˈban.ka/

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• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: bàn‧ca

Borrowed from Lombardic bank (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”). Cognates include Spanish banco and Portuguese banco. Doublet of banco and panca.

banca f (plural banche)

1. bank (financial institution)

See banco for descendants.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

banca

1. inflection of bancare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋka/
• (Bergamasque) IPA^(key): /baŋk/

From either Lombardic panch or Frankish.

banca m (plural banch)

1. bench

From Old Lombard panka, from Lombardic bank.

banca m (plural banch)

1. bank

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃kɐ
• Hyphenation: ban‧ca

banca f (plural bancas)

1. stall (a small open-fronted shop)

   Synonym: (Brazil) estande

2. booth (a small stall for the display and sale of goods)
3. newsstand (open stall where newspapers and magazines are on sale)
4. (economics) banking
5. (Brazil) jury (a group of people whose aim is to judge something)

banca

1. inflection of bancar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈbanka]

banca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bancă

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanka/ [ˈbãŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: ban‧ca

From banco.

banca f (plural bancas)

1. small bench

   Synonym: banqueta

2. seat (in an elective body)

   Synonyms: escaño, curul

3. financial system
4. (Philippines) a kind of large pitcher made of coarse clay

Borrowed from Tagalog bangka.

banca f (plural bancas)

1. (Philippines, nautical) a small outrigger canoe boat used in the Philippines

banca

1. inflection of bancar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “banca”, 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
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎^[2], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 112