jargon
Contents |
English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”)
Noun [edit]
jargon (countable and uncountable; plural jargons)
- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Macaulay
- A barbarous jargon.
- Macaulay
Synonyms [edit]
- (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
- vernacular
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
|
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
|
|
Verb [edit]
jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)
- To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
- Longfellow
- The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
- Longfellow
Etymology 2 [edit]
French, from Italian giargone, from Persian زر گون (zar gun, “gold-colored”).
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
jargon (plural jargons)
- A variety of zircon
Translations [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈjarɡon/
Etymology [edit]
From Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).
Noun [edit]
jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje)
- A jargon, specialised language
Finnish [edit]
(index ja)
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈjɑrgon/
Noun [edit]
jargon
Declension [edit]
|
Declension of jargon (type risti)
|
French [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old French gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or refering to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /ʒ/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe
Noun [edit]
jargon m (plural jargons)
- jargon, specialised or inintelligible language
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Italian giargone
Noun [edit]
jargon m (plural jargons)
- A jargon, zircon type
References [edit]
- "jargon" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
jargon m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)
Descendants [edit]
- French: jargon
Turkish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French jargon.
Noun [edit]
jargon
Synonyms [edit]
Volapük [edit]
Noun [edit]
jargon
- English terms derived from Old French
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Persian
- Dutch terms derived from Old French
- Dutch nouns
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French terms derived from Old French
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms derived from Italian
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Turkish terms derived from French
- Turkish nouns
- Volapük nouns