flanc

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈflaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈflaŋk]

Noun

flanc f (plural flancs)

1. flank

Derived terms

• flanquejar

Further reading

• “flanc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flanc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “flanc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flanc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *hlanka, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Italian fianco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

flanc m (plural flancs)

1. side (of person); side, flank (of animal)
2. (military) flank
3. side, slope (of mountain etc.)
4. (heraldry) flaunch

Related terms

• flanquer

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. More at English flank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flank/
• Rhymes: -ank

Noun

flanc oblique singular, m (oblique plural flans, nominative singular flans, nominative plural flanc)

1. side; flank (anatomy, side of a person)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     El flanc senestre li a l'espié bagnié

     He bathed this sword in his left side

Descendants

• Middle English: flanc
  • English: flank
• Middle French: flanc
  • French: flanc
• Norman: flianc (Jersey)