flacon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of flask and flagon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflækɒn/, /ˈflɑːkɒn/

Noun

flacon (plural flacons)

1. 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

Translations

small bottle

• Armenian: սրվակ (hy) (srvak)
• Esperanto: flakono
• German: Flakon (de) m or n
• Polish: flakon (pl) m
• Russian: флако́н (ru) m (flakón)

Anagrams

• Falcon, falcon

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.kɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

flacon m (plural flacons)

1. vial, flacon

Descendants

• → Danish: flakon
• → Dutch: flacon
• → English: flacon
• → German: Flakon
• → Polish: flakon
• → Romanian: flacon

Further reading

• “flacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon.

Noun

flacon n (plural flacoane)

1. small bottle (for medicine, cosmetics)

Declension

Declension of flacon

	singular		plural
	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