balcony

Meaning

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

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbælkəni/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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