escano

escano

See also: Escano and escaño

Galician

Escano once used for transporting the sick and deceased to the church

Escano ("bench")

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese escano (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”).

Cognate with Portuguese escano, Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈkanʊ]

Noun

escano m (plural escanos)

1. bench with backrest

   Synonym: banco

2. (dated) bier, kind of stretcher used for moving and holding a corpse
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 179:

     Poys que elles forõ ydos, fezo dõna Lanbra poer hũu escano en meo de seu curral, guisado et cuberto de panos com̃o para morto.

     After they were gone, Lady Lanbra ordered to put a bier in the middle of her yard, prepared and covered with clothes as if prepared for a dead person

   Synonyms: andas, cadaleito

References

• “escano” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escano” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escano” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escano” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escano” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

escano

1. inflection of uscire:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• Ascone, Cesano, casone, oscena, secano

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Cognate with Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺.ˈka.no/

Noun

escano m

1. bench
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 323 (facsimile):

     nẽ niun dano fezeran nẽ eno leito nẽ na meſa nẽ no ſcan^o

     they did no damage to the bed, to the table or to the bench.

Descendants

• Galician: escano
• Portuguese: escano

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• escanho

Etymology

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

Cognate with Galician escano, Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá). Doublet of escanho.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkɐ̃.nu/, /esˈkɐ̃.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkɐ̃.nu/, /esˈkɐ̃.nu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈkɐ̃.nu/, /eʃˈkɐ̃.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈkɐ.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkɐ.nu/

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧no

Noun

escano m (plural escanos)

1. bench

   Synonym: banco

2. footstool

   Synonym: escabelo

Further reading

• “escano” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.