escano

Meaning

(masculine) bench
(masculine) footstool

Hyphenated as

es‧ca‧no

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/isˈkɐ̃.nu/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escano, from Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Galician escano, Spanish escaño, Italian scanno, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá). Doublet of escanho.