flanco

Concepts

flank

side

rib

rim

section

wing

🪽

edge

side of the body

formation

Synonyms

costado

lado

costilla

margen

orilla

sección

costal

ijada

vertebra

acera

costilla completa

borde

Translations

fianco

Flanke

flanc

flanco

flanc

flanc

Seite

lato

giardinetto

Rand

côté

côte

confine

Körperseite

Hyphenated as

flan‧co

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈflanko/

Etymology

Borrowed from French: flanc

Cognate with Old High German: hlanca

Cognate with Middle High German: lanke

Cognate with German: Gelenk

Cognate with Old English: hlanc

Cognate with English: lank

In summary

Borrowed from French flanc, from Middle French flanc, from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably specifically from Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible; slender”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”).
Akin to Old High German hlanca (“hip, flank, loin”), Middle High German hip, flank, loin, German Gelenk (“joint”), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at English lank.

Sentences

Las tropas de Jean Lannes se habían desplegado en el crucial flanco derecho .

Jean Lannes's troops had been deployed on the crucial right flank.