con
See also: Appendix:Variations of "con"
Contents
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒn/
- (General American) enPR: kŏn, IPA(key): /kɑn/
- Rhymes: -ɒn
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: conn; (General American) Khan
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną.
VerbEdit
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- For Cassius is aweary of the world;
- Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
- Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
- Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
- To cast into my teeth.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):
- At length, himself unsettling, he the pond
- Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look
- Upon the muddy water, which he conned,
- As if he had been reading in a book
- 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
- I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.
- 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
- Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
NounEdit
con (plural cons)
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- pros and cons
- (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
disadvantage of something
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Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
con (plural cons)
TranslationsEdit
a convicted criminal, a convict
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Etymology 4Edit
From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
NounEdit
con (plural cons)
- (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:deception
TranslationsEdit
a fraud
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VerbEdit
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
SynonymsEdit
- (to be conned): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
TranslationsEdit
to trick or defraud, usually for personal gain
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Related termsEdit
terms derived from "con" (swindle)
Etymology 5Edit
From earlier cond, from Middle English conduen, from Old French conduire, from Latin condūcere, present active infinitive of condūcō (“draw together; conduct”).
VerbEdit
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through a channel etc. (rather than steer a compass direction)
TranslationsEdit
to give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction
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NounEdit
con (uncountable)
- (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from "con" (navigation)
Etymology 6Edit
Clipping of convention or conference.
NounEdit
con (plural cons)
- (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
Etymology 7Edit
Clipping of conversion.
NounEdit
con (plural cons)
- (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
- We're getting a loft con done next year.
See alsoEdit
Etymology 8Edit
Clipping of consumption.
NounEdit
con (uncountable)
AnagramsEdit
AragoneseEdit
AsturianEdit
CatalanEdit
DalmatianEdit
FalaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.
PrepositionEdit
con
- with
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2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:
- Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
- As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as:
- Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
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AntonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European [Term?] origin.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
con m (plural cons, feminine conne)
AdjectiveEdit
con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “con” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).
PrepositionEdit
con
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
con m
MutationEdit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| con | chon | gcon |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
con
Usage notesEdit
- When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (old-fashioned, very rarely used apart from col and coi, which even then are uncommon):
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con + article Combined form con + il col con + lo collo con + l' coll' con + i coi con + gli cogli con + la colla con + le colle
AntonymsEdit
LadinEdit
LigurianEdit
MuongEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- còn (tone sandhi)
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *kuən. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.
NounEdit
con
ClassifierEdit
con
- Indicates animals (including the human)
ReferencesEdit
- Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar][1] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center
Old FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)
See alsoEdit
DescendantsEdit
- French: con
Etymology 2Edit
See conme.
ConjunctionEdit
con
- Alternative form of conme
Old IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
con m
MutationEdit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| con | chon | con pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Old PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱón.
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
con
DescendantsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
con
AntonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
VietnameseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Muong con, Mon ကွေန် (kon), Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese kōan.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
See alsoEdit
PronounEdit
- I (refers to oneself when speaking to their parent(s))
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I (refers to oneself when speaking to a (presumably) much older person, or one's grandparent(s))
- you (addressed to one's son or daughter)
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you (addressed to a (presumably) much younger person, or one's grandchild/nephew/niece)
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Là con thật!
- It's you for real!
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Usage notesEdit
- Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.
SynonymsEdit
- (you (4)): cháu
ClassifierEdit
con
- Indicates animals (including humans).
- Indicates things, such as knives, ships, boats, trains, irises, etc.
- Indicates natural phenomena, such as rivers, streams, waves, the nature or universe, etc.
- (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
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Anh mày có hẳn hai con xe Honda đấy nhớ!
- I have two Honda motorbikes!
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Usage notesEdit
- Even though con người is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and người does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese 人 (nin)). Một con người "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while một người sounds casual enough.