Blanco in Spanish is the color white, the lightest color, the color of snow, milk, paper, and clouds. Blanco is the masculine singular form of white in Spanish, with blanca being feminine, blancos masculine plural, and blancas feminine plural. As an adjective, blanco describes anything that is white, as in casa blanca meaning white house, coche blanco meaning white car, papel blanco meaning white paper, and nieve blanca meaning white snow. As a noun, el blanco means the color white or a white person, and en blanco means blank, as in página en blanco meaning blank page. Blanco is one of the basic color words in Spanish, along with negro meaning black, rojo meaning red, and azul meaning blue. In terms of shade, blanco in Spanish refers to pure white, not off-white, cream, or ivory, though there are variations like blanco hueso meaning bone white or off-white, blanco roto meaning broken white, and blanco puro meaning pure white. The word comes from Germanic blank meaning shining or white. As a surname, Blanco means white and was given to someone with white hair or pale skin. So blanco in Spanish is white, the color white, the absence of color, brightness, and purity, and is pronounced BLAHN-ko.
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