con

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has articles on:
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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). Doublet of can.

Verb[edit]

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
      For Cassius is aweary of the world;
      Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
      Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
      Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
      To cast into my teeth.
    • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):
      At length, himself unsettling, he the pond
      Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look
      Upon the muddy water, which he conned,
      As if he had been reading in a book
    • 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
      I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
      During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.
    • 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
      The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
  2. (rare, obsolete) To know, understand, acknowledge.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).

Noun[edit]

con (plural cons)

  1. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
    pros and cons
  2. (abbreviation) conservative
    own the cons
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Etymology 3[edit]

Clipping of convict.

Noun[edit]

con (plural cons)

  1. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
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Etymology 4[edit]

From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.

Noun[edit]

con (plural cons)

  1. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
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Verb[edit]

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
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Related terms[edit]

terms derived from "con" (swindle)

Etymology 5[edit]

From earlier cond; see conn.

Verb[edit]

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)

Noun[edit]

con (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)

Etymology 6[edit]

Clipping of convention or conference.

Noun[edit]

con (plural cons)

  1. (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
    • 1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet‎[2], message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>:
      I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.

Etymology 7[edit]

Clipping of conversion.

Noun[edit]

con (plural cons)

  1. (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
    We're getting a loft con done next year.

Etymology 8[edit]

Clipping of consumption.

Noun[edit]

con (uncountable)

  1. (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Anagrams[edit]

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with

Derived terms[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ca

Etymology[edit]

From Latin conus.

Noun[edit]

con m (plural cons)

  1. cone

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Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin cum

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin cunnus.

Noun[edit]

con m

  1. (vulgar) vulva, cunt

Fala[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:
      Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
      As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as:

Antonyms[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

con m (plural cons, feminine conne)

  1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy
  2. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)

Adjective[edit]

con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)

  1. (slang, vulgar) stupid

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Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

con

  1. and

Etymology 2[edit]

Cons, Couso, Ribeira, Galicia
Boulder known as Con da Edra (Ivy's boulder)

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto,[1] perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”)[2] rather than from Latin cōnus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.[3]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

con m (plural cons)

  1. boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore
    Synonyms: laxe, petón

Derived terms[edit]

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References[edit]

  • “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ "cauneto" in Galleciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. ^ Cf. Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, pages 30-31.
  3. ^ Joseph M. Piel (1953) Miscelânea de etimologia portuguesa a galega: primeira série‎[1], Coímbra: Universidade, page 99

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

con m sg

  1. genitive singular of cú

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
con chon gcon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with, together
  2. (rowing) coxed

Usage notes[edit]

  • When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (marking these combined forms in writing is old-fashioned, and very rarely used apart from col and coi; however, it has always been very common in speech, and it still is):
con + article Combined form
con + il col
con + lo collo
con + l' coll'
con + i coi
con + gli cogli
con + la colla
con + le colle

Antonyms[edit]

Ladin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
    Antonyms: zenza, zënza

Ligurian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
con + article Combined form
con + o co-o
con + a co-a
con + i co-i
con + e co-e

Middle Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

con m

  1. genitive singular/dual/plural of cú

Mutation[edit]

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con chon con
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Muong[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *kuən. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.

Noun[edit]

con

  1. child

Classifier[edit]

con

  1. Indicates animals (including the human)

References[edit]

  • Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar]‎[3] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center

Old French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin cunnus.

Noun[edit]

con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)

  1. (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)

See also[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • French: con

Etymology 2[edit]

See conme.

Conjunction[edit]

con

  1. Alternative form of conme

Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

con m

  1. genitive singular/dual/plural of cú

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con chon con
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with

Descendants[edit]

Old Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum.

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
    • c. 1200, Cantar del Mio Cid:
      Çid, en el nuestro mal vos non ganades nada;
      mas ¡el Criador vos vala con todas sus vertudes sanctas!»
      Cid, from our ill you gain nothing;
      but may the Creator protect you with all his holy powers!

Descendants[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

con

  1. with
  2. on
    Yo cuento con ustedes.
    I count on you.

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Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung กอน, Mon ကွေန် (kon), Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese kōan. For semantic relations, compare Chinese 子 (“child; small thing”), Japanese 子 (shi, ko, “child; small thing”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(classifier đứa) con • (昆, 𡥵)

  1. child (daughter or son)
    con cái ― children
    con nuôi ― an adopted child
    gà con ― a chick
    Con cóc con là con con cóc.
    A toadlet is an offspring of a toad.
    • 1983, Phan Thị Miến, transl., Ô-đi-xê [The Oddyssey]:
      Tê-lê-mác, con ! Đừng làm rầy mẹ, mẹ còn muốn thử thách cha ở tại nhà này. Thế nào rồi mẹ con cũng sẽ nhận ra, chắc chắn như vậy. Hiện giờ cha còn bẩn thỉu, áo quần rách rưới, nên mẹ con khinh cha, chưa nói : “Đích thị là chàng rồi !”. […]
      Telemachus, my son! Don’t you bother your mother, she still wants to put me to trials at this home. She will recognize me eventually, there is no doubt about that. I still look like a rascal, in torn clothes, that is why your mother still doubts me, she is yet to say: “It was definitely you this whole time!”. […]

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

Derived terms[edit]

  • (reduplicated): cỏn con (“tiny”)
  • (reduplicated): con con (“rather small”)

Noun[edit]

con • (昆, 𡥵)

  1. (rare, only in compounds) a small thing
    con quay ― a spinning top
    con lắc ― a pendulum

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Pronoun[edit]

con • (昆, 𡥵)

  1. I/me, your child
  2. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I/me, someone a lot younger than you
  3. you, my child
  4. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you, someone a lot younger than me
    Là con thật!
    It's you for real!

Usage notes[edit]

  • Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.

Synonyms[edit]

Classifier[edit]

con

  1. Indicates animals (including humans).
  2. Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.
  3. Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.
  4. (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
    Anh mày có hẳn hai con xe Honda đấy nhớ!
    I have two Honda motorbikes!

Usage notes[edit]

  • Even though con người is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and người does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese 人 (nin)). Một con người "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while một người sounds casual enough.
  • The phrase con người is popularly employed as a philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.

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Derived terms

Zazaki[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian جان‎ (jân).

Noun[edit]

con ?

  1. soul
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