rancio

Borrowed from Spanish rancio. Doublet of rance.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.sjo/

rancio m (plural rancios)

1. the soft, mellow quality acquired by brandy as it is aged

• “rancio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• arrancio, rencio

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ranço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rancidus.

• Hyphenation: ran‧cio

rancio (feminine rancia, masculine plural rancios, feminine plural rancias)

1. rancid
2. (figurative) old-fashioned, outdated

   Synonym: anticuado

rancio m (plural rancios)

1. rancidity

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ranço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rança”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rancio”, 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), “rancio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rancio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈran.t͡ʃo/
• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Hyphenation: ràn‧cio

Apheresis of arancio (“orange”).

• ranceo (uncommon)

rancio (feminine rancia, masculine plural ranci, feminine plural rance)

1. (obsolete or literary) orange

   Synonym: arancione

• rancio¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Vulgar Latin *rancius, from Classical Latin rancidus (“rancid, rank”).

rancio (feminine rancia, masculine plural ranci, feminine plural rance)

1. (obsolete) rancid

   Synonym: rancido

• rancio² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Spanish rancho. Doublet of ranch and rancho.

rancio m (plural ranci)

1. (military) each of the main meals given out to soldiers daily
2. (by extension) meal

   Synonym: pasto

3. (historical, military) each of the fixed groups into which a ship's crew was subdivided for meal consumption and cleaning of the mess
4. (nautical, regional) synonym of branda

• rancio³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Akin to granchio (“crab”).

rancio m (plural ranci)

1. (southern Italy) synonym of scampo (“prawn”)
2. (southern Italy) synonym of grancevola (“spiny spider crab”)

• rancio⁴ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Anrico, Cornia, Norcia, Ornica, ancori, canori, carino, corani, cornai, cranio, inarco, inarcò

• ranco

Inherited from Latin arāneus. Compare Italian ragno.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈraɲ.d͡ʒə]

rancio m (plural rancie)

1. spider

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 485: “il ragno; i ragni” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Inherited from Latin rancidus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈranθjo/ [ˈrãn̟.θjo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈransjo/ [ˈrãn.sjo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -anθjo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ansjo (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ran‧cio

rancio (feminine rancia, masculine plural rancios, feminine plural rancias)

1. rancid
2. stale (butter or cheese)
3. mellow, old (wine)
4. (figurative) ancient, long-established
5. (figurative, derogatory) old-fashioned, antiquated, conservative
   • 2018 August 24, Javier Ocaña, “La vocación de lo rancio”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid, →ISSN:

     Cuando parecía que ya no se hacían películas así, Michael Radford y sus acompañantes han compuesto La música del silencio, biografía cinematográfica del tenor italiano Andrea Bocelli […] sobre un artista que seguramente no se merecía una producción tan rancia, tanto en lo interno como en lo externo.

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   • 2021 December 3, Sami Naïr, “Un candidato del odio en Francia”, in El País‎^[2], retrieved 8 January 2022:

     Se llama Éric Zemmour, oriundo de Argelia y encarna en una sola persona el racismo anti-musulmán, el antisemitismo y el antieuropeísmo más rancio.

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   • 2021 December 11, José Sámano, “Santana, un grande de hoy, ayer y mañana”, in El País‎^[3]:

     Santana fue el embrión de Santana, del tenis español. Y todo por su cuenta, en tiempos de franciscana austeridad, del rancio franquismo y con el deporte entroncado al paleolítico.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → French: rancio

rancio m (plural rancios)

1. curmudgeon

• “rancio”, 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

• incoar, ración