different between felon vs bandit

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?l'?n, IPA^(key): /?f?l?n/
• Rhymes: -?l?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English felun, feloun, from Anglo-Norman felun (“traitor, wretch”), from Medieval Latin fell?, from Frankish *fell? (“wicked person”), from Proto-Germanic *fillô, *filjô (“flayer, whipper, scoundrel”), from Proto-Germanic *faluz (“cruel, evil”) (compare English fell (“fierce”), Middle High German v?lant (“imp”)), related to *fellan? (compare Dutch villen, German fillen (“to whip, beat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to stir, move, swing”) (compare Old Irish ad·ella (“to seek”), di·ella (“to yield”), Umbrian pelsatu (“to overcome, conquer”), Latin pell? (“to drive, beat”), Latvian lijuôs, pl?tiês (“to force, impose”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélas, “near”), ???????? (pílnamai, “I approach”), Old Armenian ??????? (halacem, “I pursue”).

Noun

felon (plural felons)

1. A person who has committed a felony.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340:

     Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.

2. (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
3. A wicked person.

Synonyms

• (one who has committed a felony): criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit

Related terms

• felonious
• felonize
• felony

Translations

Adjective

felon

1. wicked; cruel

Etymology 2

Probably from Latin fel (“gall, poison”).

Noun

felon (plural felons)

1. (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

See also

• whitlow

References

• felon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• felon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• flone

Esperanto

Noun

felon

1. accusative singular of felo

Old French

Alternative forms

• felun, feloun, felloun

Etymology

From Medieval Latin fell?, from Frankish *fell? (“evildoer”).

Noun

felon m (oblique plural felons, nominative singular felons, nominative plural felon)

1. evildoer; wrongdoer
2. immoral person

Declension

Adjective

felon m (oblique and nominative feminine singular felone)

1. bastard; idiot (a general pejorative)
2. evil; bad; immoral

Declension

Related terms

• felonie

Descendants

• Middle French: felon
  • French: félon
• Norman: fflon
• Picard: fèlôn
• ? Middle Dutch: fel, felle (reborrowing)
• ? Middle English: felun, feloun
  • Scots: felloun
  • English: felon
    • ? Scots: felon, fellin
• ? Galician: felón
• ? Spanish: felón

References

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ?????? (felon?), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phelónion).

Noun

felon n (plural feloane)

1. cape worn by the priest over the liturgical garments

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”). The Italian verb is inherited from Vulgar Latin *bannire (“to proclaim”), but its form was influenced by Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (bandwjan, “to signal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bænd?t/

Noun

bandit (plural bandits)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military) An enemy aircraft.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

Synonyms

• (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
• (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
• (one who cheats others): cheater

Derived terms

• gas meter bandit
• one-armed bandit
• shag bandit

Related terms

• banditti

Translations

Verb

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
   • 1921, Munsey's Magazine (volume 74, page 38)

     First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.

   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 160, page 7)

     As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

References

Anagrams

• IT Band, IT band

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.di/
• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit

Derived terms

• banditisme
• bandit de grand chemin
• bandit manchot

Descendants

• ? German: Bandit
  • ? Polish: bandyta
• ? Norman: bandit

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?band?t?]
• Hyphenation: ban?dit

Noun

bandit (first-person possessive banditku, second-person possessive banditmu, third-person possessive banditnya)

1. bandit

   Synonyms: penjahat, pencuri

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandit.

Noun

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

Romanian

Etymology

From French bandit

Noun

bandit m (plural bandi?i)

1. bandit

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian bandito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ndi?t/
• Hyphenation: ban?dit

Noun

bànd?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. bandit

Declension

References

• “bandit” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal