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falconer
English
Etymology
From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f?l.k?n.?(?)/, /?f??k.n?(?)/, and similar variations
- (US) IPA(key): /?fælk?n?/
Noun
falconer (plural falconers)
- A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
- One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Synonyms
- hawker
Related terms
- falconry
Translations
References
- falconer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Florance
Old French
Alternative forms
- fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
- fauconier
- fauconnier
Etymology
falcon +? -er.
Noun
falconer m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)
- (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)
Descendants
- ? English: falconer
- French: fauconnier
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falcon
English
Alternative forms
- faulcon (obsolete), faucon (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falc? (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falk? (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol?- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôl?k?n, fô?k?n, IPA(key): /?f??(l)k?n/, /?f?lk?n/
- (US) enPR: f?l?k?n, IPA(key): /?fælk?n/ IPA(key): /?f??lk?n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?fælk?n/, IPA(key): /?fo?lk?n/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?f?lk?n/, IPA(key): /?fo?lk?n/
- Rhymes: -??(l)k?n
Originally, the l was silent and purely etymological. Its pronunciation began through spelling pronunciation and is followed by most speakers, though some speakers still use l-less pronunciations.
Noun
falcon (plural falcons)
- Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
- (falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
- (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.
Derived terms
- black falcon
- brown falcon
- gray falcon, grey falcon
Related terms
- Capra falconeri
- falconer
- falconet
- falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle
- falconine
- falconry
- gerfalcon, gyrfalcon
- peregrine falcon
Translations
Verb
falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)
- To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
Anagrams
- flacon
Ladin
Noun
falcon m
- kestrel
Middle English
Noun
falcon
- Alternative form of faucoun
Occitan
Alternative forms
- faucon
Etymology
From Old Occitan falcon, from Late Latin falco, falconem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fal?ku/
Noun
falcon m (plural falcons)
- falcon
- Synonym: moisset
Derived terms
- falconièr
Old French
Noun
falcon m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)
- Alternative form of faucon (falcon)
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Late Latin falco, falconem.
Noun
falcon m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)
- falcon (bird)
Descendants
- Catalan: falcó
- Occitan: falcon
References
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “falco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 30, page 381
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