flacon
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of flask and flagon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flacon (plural flacons)
- A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
- October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
- two glass flacons for the ink
- October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
Translations edit
small bottle
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flacon m (plural flacons)
Descendants edit
- → Danish: flakon
- → Dutch: flacon
- → English: flacon
- → German: Flakon
- → Polish: flakon
- → Romanian: flacon
Further reading edit
- “flacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
flacon n (plural flacoane)
- small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)
Declension edit
Declension of flacon
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flacon | flaconul | (niște) flacoane | flacoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) flacon | flaconului | (unor) flacoane | flacoanelor |
vocative | flaconule | flacoanelor |