faisan

See also: faisán and faîsan

French

faisans (mâle et femelle)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French faisan, from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fə.zɑ̃/

• faisan:

  (file)

Noun

faisan m (plural faisans, feminine faisane or faisande)

1. pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae)
2. cock pheasant (male pheasant)

Synonyms

(male pheasant)

• coq faisan
• faisan mâle
• mâle du faisan

Derived terms

• faisandeau (“young pheasant”)

Descendants

• → Romanian: fazan

Further reading

• “faisan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Noun

faisan m (plural faisans)

1. pheasant

Descendants

• French: faisan
  • → Romanian: fazan
• Norman: faîsan (Jersey)

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Old French

Li faisans

Alternative forms

• faisant, faisen, feisan, feisant, fesan
• feisaun, fesaun, fesaunt (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

The expected from would be *faisain, *feisain; the form in -an is probably influenced by Old Occitan faisan or by the word's Latin etymon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fai̯ˈzan/, /fəˈzan/

Noun

faisan oblique singular, m (oblique plural faisans, nominative singular faisans, nominative plural faisan)

1. pheasant

Descendants

• Middle French: faisan
  • French: faisan
    • → Romanian: fazan
  • Norman: faîsan (Jersey)
• → Middle English: fesaunt, fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
  • English: pheasant
    • → Welsh: ffesant
  • Scots: pheasant
• → Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: faisán
• → Middle Dutch: faisant, fasaen
  • Dutch: fazant
• → Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: faisán
  • Portuguese: faisão
• → Old Spanish: faysan
  • → Spanish: faisán
    • → Tagalog: paysan