balcony

Signification

1. An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
2. An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbælkəni/

Étymologie

From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from Lombardic *balk, *balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“beam”), Old English balca (“beam, ridge”). More at balk.