flacon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of flask and flagon.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flacon (plural flacons)
- A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
- October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
- two glass flacons for the ink
- October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
Translations[edit]
small bottle
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flacon m (plural flacons)
Descendants[edit]
- → Danish: flakon
- → Dutch: flacon
- → English: flacon
- → German: Flakon
- → Polish: flakon
- → Romanian: flacon
- → Russian: флако́н (flakón)
- → Ukrainian: флако́н (flakón)
Further reading[edit]
- “flacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
flacon n (plural flacoane)
- small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)
Declension[edit]
Declension of flacon
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flacon | flaconul | (niște) flacoane | flacoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) flacon | flaconului | (unor) flacoane | flacoanelor |
vocative | flaconule | flacoanelor |
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