falcon

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
2. Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
3. A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
4. (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.

Verb

To hunt with a falcon or falcons.

Concepts

faucon

Faucon

autour

milan

🪁

falcon

aigle

🦅

buse

Synonymes

hawk

kite

🪁

eagle

🦅

buzzard

falconet

kestrel

peregrine falcon

sparrow hawk

black-shouldered kite

etc.

merlin

peregrine

duck hawk

swifthawk

Falco

goshawk

harrier

falcons

Traductions

Falke

halcón

falco

valk

falcone

falcão

γεράκι

falcó

doğan

gökdoğan

Falco

falco

صقر

şahin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈfɔː(l)kən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: faucoun

Appartenant à ancien anglais: *fealca

Appartenant à néerlandais: valk

Appartenant à allemand: Falke

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à suédois: falk

Appartenant à islandais: fálki

Appartenant à français: faucon

Appartenant à italien: falco

Appartenant à espagnol: halcón

Appartenant à portugais: falcão

Appartenant à latin: falco

Appartenant à lituanien: pálšas

Appartenant à letton: bāls

Appartenant à latgalien: buolgs

In summary

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

Phrases

And the falcon then nourishes man .

Et le Falcon nourrit alors l'homme.