branco

Clipping of brancardier + -o.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.ko/

branco m (plural brancos)

1. (military, colloquial) stretcher-bearer
   • 2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles, Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 10:

     Le barbu s'appelle Augustin, l'autre, c'est Sauvageon. Ils sont tous les deux brancos au 98^e R.I. Le type qu'ils trimballent sur le brancard, c'est Grumeau.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• brancard

From Old Galician-Portuguese branco, inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaŋko/ [ˈbɾɑŋ.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -aŋko

branco (feminine branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas)

1. white (colour)

From branca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbran.ko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: bràn‧co

branco m (plural branchi)

1. flock (of sheep)
2. pack (of wolves or dogs)
3. gang (of people)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.ku/

branco (feminine branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas)

1. white

• Ferreira, Amadeu, Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona (2003–2022) “branco”, in Dicionário de Mirandês-Português [Mirandese-Portuguese Dictionary].

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾã.ko/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾã.kʊ/

branco m (plural brancos, feminine branca, feminine plural brancas)

1. white
   • 1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, A 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)

     […] mia ſennor branca e / uermella.

     […] my lady of white skin and / reddish face.

• Fala: blãcu
• Galician: branco
• Portuguese: branco (see there for further descendants)

From Old Galician-Portuguese branco, inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus with regular dissimilation of -l- to -r- after a consonant. Compare Galician branco, Spanish blanco. Doublet of Bianca, a name borrowed from Italian.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Hyphenation: bran‧co

branco m (plural brancos)

1. white (color)

   Synonyms: (poetic) alvo, cândido

   1. (heraldry) argent
   2. white clothing
2. (Brazil, informal) blackout (failure in recalling something)

   Synonym: branca

   Me deu um branco na prova!

   I couldn’t remember anything during the test!

3. (oenology) ellipsis of vinho branco

branco m (plural brancos, feminine branca, feminine plural brancas)

1. a white person

   Synonyms: (formal and relatively uncommon) caucasiano, (derogatory) branquelo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:branco.

branco (feminine branca, masculine plural brancos, feminine plural brancas, comparable, comparative mais branco, superlative o mais branco or branquíssimo, diminutive branquinho, augmentative brancão)

1. white in color
2. (of a person) white; Caucasian

   Synonym: (formal and relatively uncommon) caucasiano

3. (of a person) pale; pallid

   Synonym: pálido

4. white (lightest in color compared to similar objects)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:branco.

• Angolar: baanku
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: branku
• Indo-Portuguese: branco
• Kabuverdianu: bránku
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: brak
• Kristang: brangku
• Principense: baanku
• Sãotomense: blanku