escaño

See also: escano and Escaño

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”).

Cognate with Galician escano, Portuguese escano, Italian scanno, and more distantly Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaɲo/ [esˈka.ɲo]
• Rhymes: -aɲo
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ño

Noun

escaño m (plural escaños)

1. (politics) seat (membership in an organization, particularly a representative body)

   Synonyms: asiento, banca, curul

   • 2020 July 13, “Feijóo conquista su cuarta mayoría absoluta y Urkullu se refuerza”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Los resultados de los socialistas, sin embargo, fueron más modestos, un leve ascenso en votos que les reportó un escaño más.

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2. (dated) bench

   Synonym: banco

Descendants

• → Portuguese: escanho

See also

• silla f

 

Further reading

• “escaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28