flacon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of flask and flagon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflækɒn/, /ˈflɑːkɒn/
Noun
flacon (plural flacons)
- 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
- October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
Translations
small bottle
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Anagrams
- Falcon, falcon
French
Etymology
From Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla.kɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
flacon m (plural flacons)
- vial, flacon
Descendants
- → Danish: flakon
- → Dutch: flacon
- → English: flacon
- → German: Flakon
- → Polish: flakon
- → Romanian: flacon
Further reading
- “flacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
From French flacon.
Noun
flacon n (plural flacoane)
- small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)
Declension
Declension of flacon
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flacon | flaconul | (niște) flacoane | flacoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) flacon | flaconului | (unor) flacoane | flacoanelor |
vocative | flaconule | flacoanelor |