escaño

== Spanish == === 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). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkaɲo/ [esˈka.ɲo] Rhymes: -aɲo Syllabification: es‧ca‧ño === Noun === escaño m (plural escaños) (politics) seat (membership in an organization, particularly a representative body) Synonyms: asiento, banca, curul (dated) bench Synonym: banco ==== Descendants ==== → Portuguese: escanho ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “escaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025