bison
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”). The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ̯sən/,[1][2][3][4] (US also) /ˈbaɪ̯zən/[1][2][3]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪsən, -aɪzən
Noun
editbison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons or (rare) bisontes)
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Further reading
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bison”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “bison”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “bison”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “bison”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Russian: бизо́н (bizón) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
edit- “bison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom English bison, from Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbison (first-person possessive bisonku, second-person possessive bisonmu, third-person possessive bisonnya)
- bison: a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.
Further reading
edit- “bison” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editEtymology
edit1st century; together with Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn) (2nd century; cf. modern Greek βίσονας (vísonas)) borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbi.soːn/, [ˈbɪs̠oːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.son/, [ˈbiːs̬on]
Noun
editbisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | bisōn | bisōntēs |
Genitive | bisōntis | bisōntum |
Dative | bisōntī | bisōntibus |
Accusative | bisōntem | bisōntēs |
Ablative | bisōnte | bisōntibus |
Vocative | bisōn | bisōntēs |
Further reading
edit- “bison”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).
Noun
editbison f (plural bisons)
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