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Etymology

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    Semi-learned borrowing from Latin vinculum.[1] First attested in the 15th century (binco). Doublet of brinco and vínculo.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈbiŋko/ [ˈbiŋ.kʊ]
    • Rhymes: -iŋko
    • Hyphenation: vin‧co

    Noun

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    vinco m (plural vincos)

    1. (dated) earring
      • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
        Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes
        Item, Xoán Cortido, neighbor of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks
    2. (dated, music) triangle
    3. mark left by a folding or a binding
    4. nose ring (for pigs)
      Synonyms: brinco, narigón

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    1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “brincar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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    Italian

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈvin.ko/
    • Rhymes: -inko
    • Hyphenation: vìn‧co

    Etymology 1

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      From the form vìnchio, from Late Latin vinclum, from Latin vinculum. Compare the borrowed doublet vincolo.

      Noun

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      vinco m (plural vinchi or (poetic) vinci)

      1. osier, wicker (flexible branch of willow)
        Synonym: vimine
      2. osier (Salix viminalis)
        Synonym: salice da vimini
      3. (by extension) willow
        Synonym: salice
      Alternative forms
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      Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      vinco

      1. first-person singular present indicative of vincere

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      • vinco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

      Latin

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      Etymology

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        Inherited from Proto-Italic *winkō, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-n-k-, nasal infix from *weyk- (to overcome), whence also Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (weihan, to fight) and Old Church Slavonic вѣкъ (věkŭ, age, long period of time).

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        Verb

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        vincō (present infinitive vincere, perfect active vīcī, supine victum); third conjugation

        1. to win
          • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 890–892:
            SĪMŌ: Quid “mī pater”? Quasi tū huius indigeās patris: / Domus, uxor, līberī, inventī invītō patre! / Adductī quī illam cīvem hinc dīcant, vīcerīs.
            SIMO: What [do you mean], “my [dear] father”? As if you needed a father for this: A home, a wife, a child — [all] found against your father’s will! [And now,] if you bring here [those] who say she’s a citizen, you will have won.
            (A witness has arrived to confirm that the woman from Andros [the “uxor”-to-be] is in fact a citizen as required for legal marriage.)
        2. to conquer, to defeat, to vanquish
          Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, conquestō, superō, expugnō, domō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
          vēnī vīdī vīcī (47 BCE, Julius Caesar)I came, I saw, I conquered

        Usage notes

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        • vincor [with ablative ‘to which winner’] — I lose to <winner>.

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        References

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        • vinco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
        • vinco in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 3491–3493
        • R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vincere”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
        • vinco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1677, column 3.
        • Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “vincō”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands[3], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
        • Latino-Sinicum, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
        • "VINCERE", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
        • vincō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
        • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
          • to win a prize at the Olympian games: Olympia vincere (Ολύμπια νικαν)
          • to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum vincere (Marcell. 3. 8)
          • to win a case: causā or iudicio vincere
          • to gain a victory, win a battle: proelio vincere
          • (ambiguous) in everything nature defies imitation: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas
          • (ambiguous) the necessaries of life: quae ad victum pertinent
          • (ambiguous) things indispensable to a life of comfort: res ad victum cultumque necessariae
          • (ambiguous) a livelihood: quae suppeditant ad victum (Off. 1. 4. 12)
          • (ambiguous) to earn a livelihood by something: victum aliqua re quaerere
          • (ambiguous) the majority were of the opinion..: sententia vincit (Liv. 2. 4. 3)
          • (ambiguous) to be defeated in fight, lose the battle: proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedere

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        Etymology 1

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          Possibly a semi-learned borrowing from Latin vinculum. Doublet of brinco and vínculo.

          Noun

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          vinco m (plural vincos)

          1. crease (line or mark made by folding)

          Etymology 2

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            See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

            Verb

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            vinco

            1. first-person singular present indicative of vincar

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