franc-maçon

French

Etymology

franc (“free”) +‎ maçon (“mason”), a calque of English freemason.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔ̃/

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Noun

franc-maçon m (plural francs-maçons, feminine franc-maçonne)

1. Freemason

Descendants

• → Catalan: francmaçó
• → Ottoman Turkish: فارماسون (farmason)
  • Turkish: farmason
• → Polish: farmazon
• → Romanian: francmason
• → Russian: фармазо́н (farmazón)
  • → Romanian: farmazon

Further reading

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