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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon, from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew ?????? (qane, “reed”) and Arabic ??????? (qan?h, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'?n, IPA^(key): /?kæn.?n/
• Rhymes: -æn?n
• Homophone: cannon

Noun

canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)

1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
   • 2015, William Styron, "Irwin Shaw", in My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, page 456

     the durable canon of American short fiction

3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
11. (fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
    • 2014, Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars

      Meanwhile, having learned the whereabouts of the Death Star's plans, the rebels send their best platypus agent to obtain them, in hopes of finding a weakness. And none of this is canon, so just relax.

12. (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

13. (printing, dated, uncountable) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
15. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

16. (billiards) A carom.

Synonyms

• (48-point type): French canon

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Anglo-Norman chanoine).

Noun

canon (plural canons)

1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

Derived terms

• Canonbury
• Canons Park
• Stoke Canon

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

canon (plural canons)

1. Alternative spelling of qanun

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “canon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “canon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Ancon, Conan, ancon

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.n?n/
• Hyphenation: ca?non

Noun

canon m (plural canons, diminutive canonnetje n)

1. canon (set of representative or pre-eminent literary works)
   1. (chiefly Christianity) canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)
2. (Christianity) canon (religious law)
3. (music) canon (round, music piece consisting of the same melody sung by different voices)
4. (Roman Catholicism) canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)
5. (dated) canon (principle, rule)

Derived terms

• canoniek
• canoniseren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.n??/

Etymology 1

From Old French canon, from canne + -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. cannon, (big) gun
2. barrel (of firearm)
3. cannon for a horse.

Derived terms

• boulet de canon
• canon à eau
• chair à canon
• fusil à canon scié
• poudre à canon
• tuer une mouche avec un canon

Etymology 2

From Old French canon, borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).

The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. canon
2. (music) canon
3. (religion) canon
4. (slang) hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)

   Synonym: avion de chasse

Derived terms

• canon à neige
• canon de beauté

Etymology 3

From the above noun (see sense 4) by conversion.

Adjective

canon (plural canons)

1. (informal, of a person) hot, sexy

Etymology 4

canne +? -on.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. (slang) glass of wine

Further reading

• “canon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.no?n/, [?käno?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.non/, [?k??n?n]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).

Noun

can?n m (genitive canonis); third declension

1. a measuring line
2. (figuratively) precept, rule, canon
3. a yearly tribute paid to the emperor; (Medieval Latin, by extension) a periodic payment
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) authorized catalog, especially of books of the Bible or of the saints
5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) decree of a church synod
6. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Canon of the Mass
7. (Medieval Latin) relic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• can?niz?

Synonyms

• (precept, rule): n?rma, praeceptum, r?gula

Descendants

• Catalan: cànon
• English: canon
• French: canon
• Irish: canóin
• Italian: canone
• Russian: ?????? (kanón)
• Spanish: canon

Etymology 2

From canna (“pipe”), compare Italian cannone and Old French canon.

Noun

can?n m (genitive can?nis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a cannon (artillery)

References

• canon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• canon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “canon”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canon.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. cannon

Old French

Etymology 1

canne +? -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.

Noun

canon m (oblique plural canons, nominative singular canons, nominative plural canon)

1. tube
2. cannon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).

1. canon

Descendants

• English: canon
• French: canon
• Norman: canon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ????? (kanón), possibly partly through a South Slavic language intermediate.

Noun

canon n (plural canoane)

1. canon
2. (usually in regards to religion) tenet, dogma, rule, norm, precept
3. punishment or penance for breaking such a religious rule

Declension

Derived terms

• canoni

Related terms

• canonic

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”) (compare ????? (kánna, “reed”)), perhaps of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kanon/, [?ka.nõn]

Noun

canon m (plural cánones)

1. canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)

   Synonyms: norma, precepto, regla

2. tax, fee

Related terms

• canónico
• canonizar

References

Further reading

• “canon” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• canasom (literary, first-person plural)
• canasant (literary, third-person plural)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kan?n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?n?n/, /?kan?n/

Verb

canon

1. (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of canu
2. (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of canu

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English direccioun, from Old French direccion, from Latin d?r?cti?. Equivalent to direct +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d(a)????k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

direction (countable and uncountable, plural directions)

1. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

2. A general trend for future action.
3. Guidance, instruction.

4. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.

5. (dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
6. (archaic) A person's address.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 218:

     Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction.

Derived terms

Related terms

• direct

Translations

Anagrams

• cretinoid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?r?cti?, d?r?cti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??k.sj??/

Noun

direction f (plural directions)

1. (spatial) direction
2. (figuratively) direction
3. government
4. (figuratively) the director of the administration/organisation
5. (occasional, figurative) the territory administered by a government

Derived terms

• direction assistée

Related terms

• directeur
• diriger

Descendants

• ? Turkish: direksiyon

Further reading

• “direction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

direction (plural directiones)

1. direction (orientation, point where one is headed)
2. direction, leadership, control, supervision