🇪🇸 Spanish

banco

masculine

el banco

bank

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banco
/el ˈbaŋko/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say banco in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈbaŋko/

How do you pronounce banco in Spanish?

banco is pronounced /el ˈbaŋko/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El banco antiguo fue renovado completamente.

The old bank was completely renovated.

Este banco es muy confiable y seguro.

This bank is very reliable and safe.

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Why is it masculine?

Banco is masculine because it derives from the Latin "bancus" (a bench or counter), which was a masculine noun in Latin, and Spanish inherited its grammatical gender through regular sound changes. The word originally referred to the benches where money changers and merchants conducted business, and this masculine gender was preserved as the word evolved to mean "bank" in modern Spanish.

What is the Spanish word for bank?

The Spanish word for bank is el banco — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbanque flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianbanca flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesebancoomasculine

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