banqueta

From banc +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəŋˈkɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bəŋˈkə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baŋˈke.ta]

banqueta f (plural banquetes)

1. diminutive of banca
2. stool (a seat for one person without a back or armrest)
3. (sports) bench
4. (architecture) base

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

Inherited from Spanish banqueta.

• IPA^(key): /banˈketa/, [bãŋˈke.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: ban‧que‧ta

banqueta

1. sidewalk

• Homophones: banquetas, banquetât

banqueta

1. third-person singular past historic of banqueter

From Middle French banquet.

• IPA^(key): /baŋˈketa̝/

banqueta f (plural banquetas)

1. stool (a seat for one person without a back or armrest)

   Synonym: tallo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “banqueta”, 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), “banqueta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “banqueta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: ban‧que‧ta

banqueta f (plural banquetas)

1. stool (a seat for one person without a back or armrest)

   Synonyms: banco, tamborete, banquinho

• “banqueta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From banca (“bench”) +‎ -eta (diminutive suffix). The sense of sidewalk comes from the platfoms, like low benches, which were used for walking on streets aside houses.

• IPA^(key): /banˈketa/ [bãŋˈke.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ban‧que‧ta

banqueta f (plural banquetas)

1. (furniture) footstool

   Synonyms: reposapiés, escabel, taburete

2. (furniture) small bench
3. (Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines) sidewalk

   Synonyms: acera, (Latin America) vereda, (Colombia) andén

• → Tagalog: bangketa

• “banqueta”, 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