falco

== Catalan == === Verb === falco first-person singular present indicative of falcar == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfal.ko/ Rhymes: -alko Hyphenation: fàl‧co === Etymology 1 === From Late Latin falcō, probably of Germanic origin. ==== Noun ==== falco m (plural falchi) hawk, falcon (figurative) fierce and astute person (politics, figurative, derogatory) warmonger, bellicist, hawk, war hawk Antonym: colomba ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== falco first-person singular present indicative of falcare == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Uncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho (“falcon”), from Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *polH-, *pelH- (“grey, bluish”) +‎ *-(u)k-, a suffix found in the names of several types of birds (e.g. *alkǭ, *habukaz, Proto-West Germanic *kranuk, etc.). Cognate with Old Saxon falko (“falcon”), Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Old Norse fálki (“falcon”), Old High German falo (“pale”), Latin pullus (“dusky coloured, blackish”). More at fallow. Alternate etymology connects falco to Latin falx (“sickle, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”) due to the bird's curved beak and talons, but this derivation is usually regarded as folk-etymology. ==== Alternative forms ==== faltō ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfaɫ.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfal.ko] ==== Noun ==== falcō m (genitive falcōnis); third declension falcon pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== flectō ===== Descendants ===== Borrowings ===== References ===== “falco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "falco", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “falco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. ==== See also ==== falx === Etymology 2 === Derivation of Latin falx. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfaɫ.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfal.ko] ==== Verb ==== falcō (present infinitive falcāre, perfect active falcāvī, supine falcātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin) to mow ===== Descendants ===== Italian: falco, falcare ===== References ===== "falcare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Old High German == === Alternative forms === falko, falcho, falc === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falcō. === Noun === falco m falcon ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: valke German: Falke, Falk Hunsrik: Fallek Luxembourgish: Fallek