flacon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of flask and flagon.

Noun

flacon (plural flacons)

1. A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
   • Longfellow

     two glass flacons for the ink

Translations

small bottle

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

Anagrams

• Falcon, falcon

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French

Etymology

From Middle French flascon, from Latin flascō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.kɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

flacon m (plural flacons)

1. vial, flacon.

Descendants

• → Dutch: flacon
• → English: flacon
  • → Danish: flakon

Further reading

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