falco
Catalan
editVerb
editfalco
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Late Latin falcō, probably of Germanic origin.
Noun
editfalco m (plural falchi)
- hawk, falcon
- (figurative) fierce and astute person
- (politics, figurative, derogatory) warmonger, bellicist, hawk, war hawk
- Antonym: colomba
- 2020 July 25, “La Polonia esce dalla Convenzione contro la violenza sulle donne”, in la Repubblica[1]:
- L´annuncio [sic] della decisione è venuto in persona dal ministro della Giustizia Zbigniew Ziobro, che all'interno del PiS (Diritto e Giustizia, il partito sovranista di maggioranza, tornato al potere a fine 2015) è considerato un falco, leader dell'ala dura.
- The announcement of the decision came in person from the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, who within the PiS (Law and Justice, the souverainist majority party, returned to power at the end of 2015) is considered a war hawk, leader of the hard wing.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editfalco
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho (“falcon”), from Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *polH-, *pelH- (“grey, bluish”) + *-(u)k-, a suffix found in the names of several types of birds (e.g. *alkǭ, *habukaz, Proto-West Germanic *kranuk, etc.).
Cognate with Old Saxon falko (“falcon”), Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Old Norse fálki (“falcon”), Old High German falo (“pale”), Latin pullus (“dusky coloured, blackish”). More at fallow.
Alternate etymology connects falco to Latin falx (“sickle, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”) due to the bird's curved beak and talons, but this derivation is usually regarded as folk-etymology.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfal.koː/, [ˈfäɫ̪koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.ko/, [ˈfälko]
Noun
editfalcō m (genitive falcōnis); third declension
- falcon
- pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | falcō | falcōnēs |
Genitive | falcōnis | falcōnum |
Dative | falcōnī | falcōnibus |
Accusative | falcōnem | falcōnēs |
Ablative | falcōne | falcōnibus |
Vocative | falcō | falcōnēs |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: faucon (see there for further descendants)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
edit- “falco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- falco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- falco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Webster's New World College Dictionary, falcon.
See also
editOld High German
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falcō.
Noun
editfalco m
Descendants
edit- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/alko
- Rhymes:Italian/alko/2 syllables
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Germanic languages
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Politics
- Italian derogatory terms
- Italian terms with quotations
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- it:Birds of prey
- it:Falconids
- Latin terms with unknown etymologies
- Latin terms derived from Germanic languages
- Latin terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-ukaz
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Birds
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German masculine nouns
- goh:Birds