picaillon
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Provençal piquar, from Vulgar Latin *pikkāre (compare Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish picar), itself either from an onomatopoetic root *pikk- (cf. also Latin picus, whence French pic), or alternatively, from Frankish *pikkōn.
Noun[edit]
picaillon m (plural picaillons)
Further reading[edit]
- “picaillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.