fianco

See also: fianĉo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French flanc (“flank, side”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfjan.ko/
  • Rhymes: -anko
  • Hyphenation: fiàn‧co

Noun

fianco m (plural fianchi)

  1. flank, haunch (part of the body)
    • 1984, Falco, “Junge Roemer” (overall work in German):
      Un ballo nuovo porta ritmo nei fianchi della città
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. side
    al mio fianco ― by my side
    di fianco ― laterally
  3. (poetic, metonymic) the whole body
    • 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XVI — Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho”, in Il Canzoniere, line 5; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
      […] indi trahendo poi l’antiquo fianco […]
      Then dragging the old body from there […]

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ fianco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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