escaño

See also: escano and Escaño

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”).

Cognate with Galician escano, Portuguese escano, Italian scanno, and more distantly Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈkaɲo/ [esˈka.ɲo]
  • Rhymes: -aɲo
  • Syllabification: es‧ca‧ño

Noun

escaño m (plural escaños)

  1. (politics) seat (membership in an organization, particularly a representative body)
    Synonyms: asiento, banca, curul
    • 2020 July 13, “Feijóo conquista su cuarta mayoría absoluta y Urkullu se refuerza”, in El País‎[1]:
      Los resultados de los socialistas, sin embargo, fueron más modestos, un leve ascenso en votos que les reportó un escaño más.
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  2. (dated) bench
    Synonym: banco

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: escanho

See also

Further reading

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