Noun: fianco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: fiàn‧co
| Singular m | fianco |
| Plural m | fianchi |
Sample Sentences
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Un ballo nuovo porta ritmo nei fianchi della città [1984, Falco, “Junge Roemer” (overall work in German):]
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al mio fianco (by my side)
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di fianco (laterally)
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[…] indi trahendo poi l’antiquo fianco […] (Then dragging the old body from there […]) [1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XVI — Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho”, in Il Canzoniere, line 5; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:]
Nouns inflected like fianco
sbrego,
sbergo,
sbarco,
sbocco,
sbieco,
sarago,
scacco,
scalco,
scinco,
diftongo,
smacco,
smergo,
slargo,
guidalesco,
pacciugo,
antiscialagogo,
rinfresco,
granturco,
pappalecco,
rinfianco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French flanc (“flank, side”).
Verbs referencing "fianco"
French Nouns
flanc.
Translations