biancu

From Early Medieval Latin blancus. Compare Italian bianco and Gallurese biancu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbjãnku]
• Hyphenation: bian‧cu

biancu (feminine bianca, masculine plural bianchi, feminine plural bianche)

1. white

biancu m (plural bianchi)

1. white (color)
2. white person
3. blank, void

• (white): albu

• “biancu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Early Medieval Latin blancus. Cognate with Corsican biancu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjanku/

biancu (feminine singular bianca, masculine and feminine plural bianchi)

1. white (having a white colour)

   Synonym: albu

biancu m (plural bianchi)

1. (uncountable) white (colour)
2. white (Caucasian person)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• brancu

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjanku/

biancu (feminine singular bianca, masculine plural biancos, feminine plural biancas)

1. (Logudorese) white

   Synonym: albu

biancu (feminine singular bianca, masculine plural biancos, feminine plural biancas)

1. (Campidanese) white

   Synonym: albu

biancu m (uncountable)

1. white (color)

   Synonym: albu

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Likely borrowed from Italian bianco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjanku/

biancu (feminine singular bianca, masculine and feminine plural bianchi)

1. white (having a white colour)
   • 1866 [1770s], Antonio Martini, chapter V, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎^[1], London, translation of Il santo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo secondo Matteo (in Italian), verse 36, page 16:

     Nè pa lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, palchì no poi fà un pelu biancu, o nieddu.

     [Né pa’ lu to’ cabbu hai a giurà, parchì no poi fà un peru biancu, o nieddu.]

     And you will not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.

   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese [Popular songs in Sassarese dialect]‎^[2], volume 2 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 64, page 158:

     Sia lu me’ colpu viltiddu
     D’un sumbreri pampanuddu
     Mezzu biancu e mezzu nieddu
     Mannu cant’un caniltreddu

     [Sia lu me’ cóipu visthiddu
     D’un sumbreri pampanuddu
     Mezzu biancu e mezzu nieddu
     Mannu cant’un canisthreddu]

     May my body be clothed with a fancy hat, half white and half black, as big as a basket

   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Don Paschuari nósthru si lamènta [Our Don Pasquale complains]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 194:

     La mòscha virinòsa,
     la ruia, la bïanca e la nïédda,
     è trabanèndi finza lu zaibéddu,
     di tant’iscillaradi.

     The venomous fly, the red [one], the white [one], and the black [one], is penetrating even in the brain of many wicked ones.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 21:

     l’arecci bianca a punta più no timu

     I no longer fear the white, pointy ear

biancu m (plural bianchi)

1. (uncountable) white (colour)
2. white (Caucasian person)
3. egg white, albumen

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

biancu (feminine singular bianca, masculine and feminine plural bianchi)

1. alternative form of jancu (“white”)