Gascon

See also: gascon, gascón, and Gascón

English

Alternative forms

• Gascoigne [14th–19th c.]
• Gascoine [16th–17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English Gascoyne, from Anglo-Norman gascoign, gascun et al., Middle French gascon, from Latin plural Vascōnēs. Compare Basque. Doublet of Vascon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæskən/

Noun

Gascon (plural Gascons)

1. A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     I am a Gascoine, and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.

   • 1948 November 1, “The New Pictures”, in Time:

     Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.

2. (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.
3. A breed of cow from Gascony

Translations

inhabitant

• Armenian: գասկոնցի (gaskoncʻi)
• Catalan: gascó (ca) m
• Corsican: guascone m
• Esperanto: gaskono
• French: Gascon (fr) m
• Galician: gascón m, gascoa f
• Italian: guascone (it) m
• Occitan: gascon (oc) m
• Polish: Gaskończyk (pl) m, Gaskon (pl), Gaskonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gascão (pt) m
• Romanian: gascon m
• Russian: гаско́нец (ru) m (gaskónec)
• Spanish: gascón (es) m

breed

• French: gasconne (fr) f
• Occitan: Gascona f

Adjective

Gascon (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Gascony.
2. (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

Translations

of or relating to Gascony

• Italian: guascone (it)
• Romanian: gascon
• Russian: гаско́нский (ru) m (gaskónskij)
• Spanish: gascón (es)

Proper noun

Gascon

1. The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

Translations

Translations

• French: gascon (fr) m

Anagrams

• Cogans, congas

French

Etymology

See gascon.

Noun

Gascon m (plural Gascons, feminine Gasconne)

1. Gascon person

Related terms

• Gascogne

Anagrams

• cognas, congas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Gascón.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡasˈkon/ [ɡɐsˈkon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Gas‧con

Proper noun

Gascón (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔ᜃᜓᜈ᜔)

1. a surname from Spanish, most associated with Chito Gascon, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights from 2016 to 2021

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gascon is the 702^nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 13,340 individuals.

Anagrams

• Sangco