different between procession vs gonfalon

English

Etymology

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin pr?cessi? (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from pr?c?dere, past participle pr?cessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s???n/
• Hyphenation: pro?ces?sion

Noun

procession (plural processions)

1. The act of progressing or proceeding.

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2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
   • 1914, Westways (volume 6, page 7)

     The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]

3. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
4. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.

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Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• -cade
• cavalcade
• cortege
• flypast
• march-past
• motorcade
• parade

Verb

procession (third-person singular simple present processions, present participle processioning, simple past and past participle processioned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
2. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
3. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
   • 1856, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, "PROCESSIONING", in A Law Dictionary and Glossary

     To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.

Synonyms

• process

Further reading

• procession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procession in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• gonfalone
• gonfanon

Etymology

From Middle English gonfalon, from Old French gonfalon, from Frankish *gundfano, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????n.f?.?l??n/

Noun

gonfalon (plural gonfalons)

1. A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:

     Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
     Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
     Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve

   • 1910, July 12, Franklin Pierce Adams, poem “That Double Play Again” aka “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”, New York Evening Mail, page 6:

     Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
     Making a Giant hit into a double—
     Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
     “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”

   • 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest:

     With vermilion leaf or bronze—
     Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• gonfanon

Etymology

From Old French gonfalon.

Noun

gonfalon m (plural gonfalons)

1. gonfalon

See also

• bannière, drapeau, enseigne, étendard

References

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• gonfanon

Etymology

From Frankish *gundfano, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.

Noun

gonfalon m (oblique plural gonfalons, nominative singular gonfalons, nominative plural gonfalon)

1. gonfalon

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: gonfalon
• ? Middle English: gonfalon
  • English: gonfalon
• ? Italian: gonfalone
• ? Middle Dutch: gonfaloen
  • Dutch: gonfalon, gonfalone

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gonfalon, supplement)

Romanian

Etymology

From French gonfalon.

Noun

gonfalon n (plural gonfaloane)

1. gonfalon

Declension