bianco

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish. Compare Italian bianco, Dalmatian blanc.

bianco

1. white
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.

     Dear, with that little white and red face.

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus. Doublet of blanco, a borrowing from Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjan.ko/

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• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: biàn‧co

bianco (feminine bianca, masculine plural bianchi, feminine plural bianche, superlative bianchissimo, diminutive biancolìno (“pure white, or very light”) or (rare) bianchétto or (rare) bianchìno or (rare) biancùccio, augmentative (rare) biancóne, pejorative biancàccio (“dirty white”))

1. white (bright and colourless/colorless)

   Synonym: albo

   Antonym: nero

• → German: blanko
• → Sabir: bianco
• → Sardinian: biancu

bianco m (plural bianchi)

1. white (the color of snow or milk)

   Antonym: nero

2. blank
3. linen

bianco m (plural bianchi, feminine bianca)

1. white man, white person

• bacino, cibano

• biank (Northern, eastern Trentino)
• blanco (obsolete) [13th–14th c.]

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbjaŋko]
• Hyphenation: biàn‧co

bianco (feminine singular bianca, masculine plural bianchi, feminine plural bianche)

1. white (bright and colourless)
   • 1201–1230, Proverbia quae dicuntur super natura feminarum, lines 359–360^[1]:

     de vermeio e de blanco serà sì adobata // q'ela parà una 'magena quand'è ben vernicata.

     of vermilion and white she will be so much decorated // that she will look like a painting when it is well varnished.

   • 1267, Manuscript from the archive of the Procurators of Saint Mark^[2]:

     (et) lib. d(e) ba(m)bacio xv (et) costa s. iij la livra (et) dnr. g(r)ossi xxij p(er) la cositura d(e)la coltra (et) dnr. g(r)ossi vj p(er) leace bla(n)ce

     and 15 pounds of cotton wool, which costs 3 soldi per pound, and 22 grossi for the sewing of the quilt and 6 grossi for the white laces

   • 1308, Description of the horses taken with Paolo Donato on his council trip to Candia^[3]:

     Inp(ri)ma cavalo j bru(n) baio tuto cu(m) alqua(n)ti peli blanchi i(n) lo fronte

     First was an entirely dark-red horse, with some white hair on the forehead

   • 1324, Marco Bragadin, First document with inventory and value of movable goods found in Marco Polo's house after his death, lines 14–15^[4]:

     Item foleseli bianchi de seda ll. 24 – ll. 2 de gross.

     Also white silk enemas, 24 pounds, 2 lire di grossi.

   • 1350, Annotation on a horse sale, folio 1, lines 5–6^[5]:

     un caval brun, stela en lo front, / muso blancho, balçan di piè dedrie' extimà lbr. ij;

     a brown horse, with a star [white marking] on the forehead, white face, with white markings on the rear legs, valued 2 lire.

• → Dalmatian: blank

• Galepin, “biànco” [2677]
• Ferguson (2007), page 224: “blanco”
• Rosman (1922), page 13a: “bianco”
• Nazari (1876), page 54b: “bianco del ovo”
• Boerio (1867), page 79a: “bianco”
• Patriarchi (1821), page 21a: “bianca”, “bianco”
• TLIO, “bianco”