Gascon

See also: gascon, gascón, and Gascón

English

Alternative forms

• Gascoigne [14th–19th c.]
• Gascoine [16th–17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English Gascoyne, from Anglo-Norman gascoign, gascun et al., Middle French gascon, from Latin plural Vascōnēs. Compare Basque. Doublet of Vascon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæskən/

Noun

Gascon (plural Gascons)

1. A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     I am a Gascoine, and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.

   • 1948 November 1, “The New Pictures”, in Time:

     Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.

2. (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.
3. A breed of cow from Gascony

Translations

inhabitant

• Armenian: գասկոնցի (gaskoncʻi)
• Catalan: gascó (ca) m
• Corsican: guascone m
• Esperanto: gaskono
• French: Gascon (fr) m
• Galician: gascón m, gascoa f
• Italian: guascone (it) m
• Occitan: gascon (oc) m
• Polish: Gaskończyk (pl) m, Gaskon (pl), Gaskonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gascão (pt) m
• Romanian: gascon m
• Spanish: gascón (es) m

breed

• French: gasconne (fr) f
• Occitan: Gascona f

Adjective

Gascon (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Gascony.
2. (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

Translations

of or relating to Gascony

• Italian: guascone (it)
• Romanian: gascon
• Spanish: gascón (es)

Proper noun

Gascon

1. The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

Translations

Translations

• French: gascon (fr) m

Anagrams

• Cogans, congas

French

Etymology

See gascon.

Noun

Gascon m (plural Gascons, feminine Gasconne)

1. Gascon person

Related terms

• Gascogne

Anagrams

• cognas, congas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Gascón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˈkon/, [ɡɐsˈkon]
• Hyphenation: Gas‧con

Proper noun

Gascón (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔ᜃᜓᜈ᜔)

1. a surname from Spanish, most associated with:
   • Chito Gascon, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights from 2016 to 2021

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gascon is the 702^nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 13,340 individuals.