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.

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese branco, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, borrowed from Frankish *blank.

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

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

1. white (color)

   Synonym: albo

From branca.

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

branco m (plural branchi, diminutive branchétto or branchettino)

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

• branco in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• branco in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• branco in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• brànco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• branco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃ku/ [ˈbɾɐ̃.ku]
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Syllabification: bran‧co

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 with regular dissimilation of /l/ to /ɾ/ after a consonant, itself borrowed from Frankish *blank.

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

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese branco, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, borrowed from Frankish *blank. Cognate with Galician branco, Spanish blanco. Doublet of Blanco and Bianca.

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Hyphenation: bran‧co

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

   Synonym: (formal, relatively uncommon) caucasiano

3. (of a person) pale; pallid

   Synonym: pálido

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. (wine) ellipsis of vinho branco

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

1. a white person

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

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

• “branco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “branco”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “branco”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “branco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “branco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “branco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026