palco

See also: pałco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic palk (“stand, stage”). Doublet of balco. Cognate with Piedmontese palch, Friulian palc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ko/
• Rhymes: -alko
• Hyphenation: pàl‧co

Noun

palco m (plural palchi)

1. stand, platform
2. (theater, music) stage

   Synonym: palcoscenico

3. (theater) box
4. (zoology) antler
5. scaffold, scaffolding

Derived terms

• catafalco (via consonant shift)
• palchista
• palcoscenico
• sottopalco
• spalcare

 

Related terms

• balcone

Descendants

• → Portuguese: palco
• → Spanish: palco

Anagrams

• colpa, placo, placò, polca

Portuguese

palco

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palco (“stand, stage”). Doublet of balcão.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ku/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ku/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ko/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ko]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ku/ [ˈpaɫ.ku]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alku, (Brazil) -awku
• Hyphenation: pal‧co

Noun

palco m (plural palcos)

1. stage (of a theatre)
   1. (figurative) a location where something important happens

Derived terms

• palco elisabetano
• palco giratório
• palco italiano

Further reading

• palco on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

A box or loge in the Semperoper in Dresden, Germany

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palco (“stand, stage”). Doublet of balcón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalko/ [ˈpal.ko]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -alko
• Syllabification: pal‧co

Noun

palco m (plural palcos)

1. (theater) box, loge, balcony (a compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre or other building)

Derived terms

• antepalco

 

Further reading

• “palco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014