English Explanatory Dictionary

falcon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
verb
  1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A surname from Spanish.
  3. A surname, from Native Indigenous Amerindian languages.
  4. A place name:
  5. A number of places in the United States:
  6. An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
  7. An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
  8. A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
  9. A town in Cumberland County and Sampson County, North Carolina.
  10. An unincorporated community in McNairy County, Tennessee.
  11. A suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia.

Pronunciation

fôlʹkən fôʹkən /ˈfɔː(l)kən/ /ˈfɒlkən/ fălʹkən /ˈfælkən/ /ˈfɑːlkən/ en-us-falcon.ogg /ˈfoːlkən/ /ˈfɛlkən/

Word forms

falcon falcons faulcon faucon falconing falconed

Etymology

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.

Related words

Falco Falconer falconet falcon-gentil falcon-gentle falconine falconry gerfalcon gyrfalcon

Derived words

Amur falcon aplomado falcon Barbary falcon Berigora falcon black falcon blue falcon brown falcon Eleonora's falcon falcon-eyed falconish falconlike falconologist forest falcon golden falcon name gray falcon grey falcon lanner falcon laughing falcon New Zealand falcon Peale's falcon peregrine falcon prairie falcon pygmy falcon red-footed falcon Saker falcon shaheen falcon stone falcon
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