franc-maçon
French edit
Etymology edit
franc (“free”) + maçon (“mason”), a calque of English freemason.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
franc-maçon m (plural francs-maçons, feminine franc-maçonne)
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: francmaçó
- → Ottoman Turkish: فارماسون (farmason)
- Turkish: farmason
- → Polish: farmazon
- → Romanian: francmason
- → Russian: фармазо́н (farmazón)
- → Romanian: farmazon
Further reading edit
- “franc-maçon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.