escaño

Meaning

1. (masculine) seat (membership in an organization, particularly a representative body)
2. (dated,masculine) bench

Concepts

seat

bench

chair

settle

settee

Hyphenated as

es‧ca‧ño

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/esˈkaɲo/

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).

Sentences

Los liberales ganaron un escaño adicional quedando en tercer lugar , seguidos por los comunistas .

The Liberals won an additional seat in third place, followed by the Communists.