bank – English noun declension

English noun forms of bank

Noun: bank
Singularbank
Pluralbanks

Sample Sentences

  • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”. [2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:]
  • Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money. [2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:]
  • blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
  • If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
  • All of the drum kits are on bank 1.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bankiz
4. Proto-West Germanic *banki
5. Lombardic bankbor.
6. Italian bancabor.
7. Middle French banqueder.
8. English bank
9. Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
10. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok). See: Middle English Nouns 'banke', Middle English Nouns 'banke', Italian Nouns 'banca'.

Verbs referencing "bank"

Polish Nouns bank, Ancient Greek Nouns τράπεζα, Danish Nouns bakke, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bakke, English Nouns bungoo.