flacon

English

A flacon

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco, flagon, and flask.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflækɒn/, /ˈflɑːkɒn/

Noun

flacon (plural flacons)

1. 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

Translations

small bottle

• Armenian: սրվակ (hy) (srvak)
• Esperanto: flakono
• German: Flakon (de) m or n
• Polish: flakon (pl) m
• Russian: флако́н (ru) m (flakón)

Anagrams

• Falcon, falcon

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō. Doublet of fiasco and flasque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.kɔ̃/

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Noun

flacon m (plural flacons)

1. vial, flacon

Descendants

• → Danish: flakon
• → Dutch: flacon
• → English: flacon
• → Esperanto: flakono
  • Ido: flakono
• → German: Flakon
• → Hungarian: flakon
• → Indonesian: flakon
• → Italian: flacone
• → Polish: flakon
• → Romanian: flacon
• → Russian: флако́н (flakón)
• → Ukrainian: флако́н (flakón)

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco.

Noun

flacon n (plural flacoane)

1. small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	flacon	flaconul		flacoane	flacoanele
genitive-dative	flacon	flaconului		flacoane	flacoanelor
vocative	flaconule			flacoanelor