palanca

From Vulgar Latin *palanca, from Latin phalanga, from the accusative form of Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log, trunk, body of soldiers, etc.”). Doublet of the borrowing falanga and related to falange (“phalanx”).

palanca f (plural palanche)

1. board

   for use in construction, scaffolding or furniture-making

• asse, tavola, trave
• spalancare
• palanchino

• → Alemannic German: Palangge

From Spanish blanca (“small Early Modern Spanish copper coin”).

palanca f (plural palanche)

1. money
2. (historical) any of several small copper coins, used in Tuscany, Venice and Liguria during and after the Italian Renaissance Wars, equivalent to the Spanish blanca, having a value equivalent to one or two historical pence

From Old Occitan palanca, from Vulgar Latin *palanca, from Latin phalanga, from the accusative form of Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log, trunk, body of soldiers, etc.”). Compare Catalan palanca, French planche.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlaŋ.ka/

palanca f (plural palancas)

1. plank, board
2. (nautical) gangway, plank

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ˈlɐ̃.kɐ/

Borrowed from Spanish palanca, from Latin phalanga (“roller; pole”), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log; phalanx”).

palanca f (plural palancas)

1. stake (long, sharp piece of wood)
2. lever (long, rigid object used to transmit force)
3. (military architecture, historical) a rampart with palisades or stakes

• (stake): estaca
• (lever): alavanca

• alavanca
• falange
• panca

Borrowed from Zulu mpalanka.

• impalanca, empalanca

palanca f (plural palancas)

1. roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus, an antelope of the African savannah)

From Vulgar Latin *palanca, from Latin phalanga, from the accusative form of Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log, trunk, body of soldiers, etc.”). Cf. Italian palanca, English plank, planch, as well as Spanish plancha, an etymological doublet.

palanca f (plural palancas)

1. lever
2. leverage, influence
3. joystick
4. handle (on a toilet)
5. diving board, springboard
6. (soccer) chip, chipped shot

• palanca de cambio

• apalancar
• plancha

• → Portuguese: palanca, panca