balco

See also: balcó

Italian

balco m (plural balchi) (obsolete)

balcony
Synonym: balcone
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto IX, page 126, lines 1–3:
  La concubina di Titone antico ¶ già s'imbiancava al balco d'orïente, ¶ fuor de le braccia del suo dolce amico
  The concubine of old Tithonus now gleamed white upon the eastern balcony, forth from the arms of her sweet paramour
scaffold
Synonym: palco
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava, Novella II [Eighth Day, Second Story]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎^[1], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 198:
  La Belcolore, ch'era andata in balco, udendolo diſſe. O Sere voi ſiate il ben venuto
  Belcolore then being above in the scaffold, when she heard him, said "Sweet Sir Simon, you are heartely welcome"

Borrowed from Frankish *balkō (“beam, balk”).

balcō m (genitive balcōnis); third declension^[1]^[2]

Old French: bauc, balc, bauch, bal [1247]; balcane [1250] (< balcōnem (acc.sg.))
- Middle French: bauche
- Walloon: batche
  - → Middle French: baiche
    - French: bâche
Italian: balco; balcone (< balcōnem (acc.sg.))
- → Catalan: balcó
- → English: balcony
- → French: balcon
  - → Danish: balkon
    - → Greenlandic: balkonngi
  - → Dutch: balkon
  - → German: Balkon
  - → Ottoman Turkish: بالقون (balkon)
    - Turkish: balkon
    - → Albanian: ballkon
  - → Persian: بالکن (bâlkon)
  - → Polish: balkon
  - → Romanian: balcon
  - → Russian: балко́н (balkón)
    - → Armenian: բալկոն (balkon)
    - → Azerbaijani: balkon
    - → Georgian: ბალკონი (balḳoni)
    - → Kazakh: балкон (balkon)
  - → Vietnamese: ban công
- → Hijazi Arabic: بلكونة (balakōna)
- → Hungarian: balkon
- → Polish: balkon
- → Portuguese: balcão
- → Russian: балкон (balkon)
- → Spanish: balcón
- → Swedish: balkong
- → Turkish: balkon
- → Venetan: balcon
Sicilian: barcuni, varcuni

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “1. balcus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 78
^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “balco, -onis”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 90