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falco

See also: Falco and falcó

Catalan

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Verb

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falco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of falcar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfal.ko/
  • Rhymes: -alko
  • Hyphenation: fàl‧co

Etymology 1

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From Late Latin falcō, probably of Germanic origin.

Noun

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falco m (plural falchi)

  1. hawk, falcon
  2. (figurative) fierce and astute person
  3. (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
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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falco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of falcare

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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falcō m (genitive falcōnis); third declension

  1. falcon
  2. pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in

Declension

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Third-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

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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.
  1. ^ Webster's New World College Dictionary, falcon.

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Old High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falcō.

Noun

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falco m

  1. falcon

Descendants

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