cardon

See also: Cardon

English

Alternative forms

• cardona

Noun

cardon (plural cardons)

1. Any of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.

Anagrams

• Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, candor, dacron

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan cardon, from Medieval Latin cardō, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of chardon and carde.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cardon m (plural cardons)

1. cardoon (Cynara scolymus)

Derived terms

• cardon de mer
• cardon de Tours
• cardon lainier

 

Related terms

• cardoncelle
• chardon

Further reading

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan cardon, from Medieval Latin cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈðu/

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Noun

cardon m (plural cardons)

1. (Gascony, Provençal, Languedoc) thistle

Dialectal variants

• chaucida (“Limousin, Auvergnat”)
• chaucit (“Limousin”)
• caucida (“Languedoc”)
• caucic (“Gascon”)
• chaucier (“Vivaro-alpine”)

Derived terms

• cardon blu
• cardelin
• cardonet
• cardonilha
• escardoar
• cardonar
• cardonariá
• cardonàs
• cardonessa
• cardonièra

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

Noun

cardon m (oblique plural cardons, nominative singular cardons, nominative plural cardon)

1. thistle

Descendants

• French: cardon
• Occitan: cardon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cardon.

Noun

cardon m (uncountable)

1. cardoon

Declension

declension of cardon (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cardon	cardonul
genitive/dative	(unui) cardon	cardonului
vocative	cardonule