falco
Catalan edit
Verb edit
falco
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin falcō, probably of Germanic origin.
Noun edit
falco 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 edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
falco
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain 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) IPA(key): /ˈfal.koː/, [ˈfäɫ̪koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.ko/, [ˈfälko]
Noun edit
falcō m (genitive falcōnis); third declension
- falcon
- pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | falcō | falcōnēs |
Genitive | falcōnis | falcōnum |
Dative | falcōnī | falcōnibus |
Accusative | falcōnem | falcōnēs |
Ablative | falcōne | falcōnibus |
Vocative | falcō | falcōnēs |
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Descendants 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 edit
Old High German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falcō.
Noun edit
falco m