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balcon

See also: balcón and Balcon

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Proto-Germanic *balkô
Frankish *balkōbor.
Medieval Latin balcōbor.
Italian balconebor.
French balconbor.
English balcon

    Borrowed from French balcon.

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    balcon (plural balcons)

    1. Obsolete form of balcony.
      • 1665 June 1, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎[1], volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:
        That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *balkô
    Frankish *balkōbor.
    Medieval Latin balcōbor.
    Italian balconebor.
    French balcon

      Borrowed from Italian balcone.

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      balcon m (plural balcons)

      1. (architecture) balcony

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      Friulian

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      Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetan balcon.

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      balcon m (plural balcons)

      1. window

      Romanian

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      Borrowed from French balcon.

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      balcon n (plural balcoane)

      1. (architecture) balcony
        El stă pe balcon.
        He is sitting on the balcony.
      2. (slang) boob, tit
        Are niște balcoane imense!
        She has huge tits!

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      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative balcon balconul balcoane balcoanele
      genitive-dative balcon balconului balcoane balcoanelor
      vocative balconule balcoanelor

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      Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.

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      balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

      1. window
      2. shutter

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      Zazaki

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      Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).

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      balcon

      1. eggplant
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