con

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒn/
• (General American) enPR: kŏn, IPA^(key): /kɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

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• Homophone: conn; (General American) Khan

From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). Doublet of can.

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:

     For Cassius is aweary of the world;

     Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

     Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,

     Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,

     To cast into my teeth.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):

     At length, himself unsettling, he the pond

     Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look

     Upon the muddy water, which he conned,

     As if he had been reading in a book

   • 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:

     I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:

     During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.

   • 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:

     The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.

2. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:

     Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill

• cunning
• ken
• unconned

Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).

con (plural cons)

1. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).

   pros and cons

2. (abbreviation) conservative

   own the cons

• disadvantage

• pro

• pros and cons

Clipping of convict.

con (plural cons)

1. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.

From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.

con (plural cons)

1. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.

• See also Thesaurus:deception

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.

• (to be conned): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)

From earlier cond; see conn.

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)

con (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)

Clipping of convention or conference.

con (plural cons)

1. (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

Clipping of conversion.

con (plural cons)

1. (informal) The conversion of part of a building.

   We're getting a loft con done next year.

Clipping of consumption.

con (uncountable)

1. (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

• cone
• mod cons

• CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc

From Latin cum (“with”).

con

1. with

From Latin cum (“with”).

con

1. with

From Latin conus.

con m (plural cons)

1. cone

• cònic

From Latin cum

con

1. with

From Latin cunnus.

con m

1. (vulgar) vulva, cunt

From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.

con

1. with
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:

     Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:

     As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as:

• sin

From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃/

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con m (plural cons, feminine conne)

1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy
2. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)

con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)

1. (slang, vulgar) stupid

• archicon
• connard
• connasse
• connerie

• “con” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• onc

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).

• IPA^(key): /ko̝ŋ/

con

1. with

• sen

• coa, coas
• co, cos
• cun, cuns
• cunha, cunhas

con

1. and

Cons, Couso, Ribeira, Galicia

Boulder known as Con da Edra (Ivy's boulder)

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto,[1] perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”)[2] rather than from Latin cōnus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.[3]

• co

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔŋ/

con m (plural cons)

1. boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore

   Synonyms: laxe, petón

• Con
• Coedo

• coio
• coído

• “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): [kɔnˠ]

con m sg

1. genitive singular of cú

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

• IPA^(key): /kon/

con

1. with, together
2. (rowing) coxed

• When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (old-fashioned, very rarely used apart from col and coi, which even then are uncommon):

con + article	Combined form
con + il	col
con + lo	collo
con + l'	coll'
con + i	coi
con + gli	cogli
con + la	colla
con + le	colle

• senza

• cun (Badia)

From Latin cum (“with”).

con

1. with

   Antonyms: zenza, zënza

From Latin cum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuŋ/

con

1. with

con + article	Combined form
con + o	co-o
con + a	co-a
con + i	co-i
con + e	co-e

• còn (tone sandhi)

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *kuən. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.

con

1. child

con

1. Indicates animals (including the human)

• Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar]‎ (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center

From Latin cunnus.

con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)

1. (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)

• landie

• French: con

See conme.

con

1. Alternative form of conme

• IPA^(key): /kon/

con m

1. genitive singular/dual/plural of cú

From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.

• IPA^(key): /kõ/

con

1. with

• Fala: con
• Galician: con
• Portuguese: com

From Latin cum.

con

1. with
   • c. 1200, Cantar del Mio Cid:

     Çid, en el nuestro mal vos non ganades nada;
     mas ¡el Criador vos vala con todas sus vertudes sanctas!»

     Cid, from our ill you gain nothing;
     but may the Creator protect you with all his holy powers!

• Ladino: kon
• Spanish: con

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

• IPA^(key): /kon/, [kõn]
• Rhymes: -on

con

1. with
2. on

   Yo cuento con ustedes.

   I count on you.

• sin

• conmigo
• consigo
• contigo

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung กอน, Mon ကွေန် (kon), Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese kōan. Compare Chinese 子 (“child; small thing”), Japanese 子 (shi, ko, “child; small thing”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kɔŋ˧˧]

(classifier đứa) con (昆, 𡥵) (phonemic reduplicatives cỏn con)

1. child (daughter or son)

   con cóc con là con con cóc

   A toadlet is an offspring of a toad

   • 1983, Ô-đi-xê [The Oddyssey], translated by Phan Thị Miến:

     — Tê-lê-mác, con ! Đừng làm rầy mẹ, mẹ còn muốn thử thách cha ở tại nhà này. Thế nào rồi mẹ con cũng sẽ nhận ra, chắc chắn như vậy. Hiện giờ cha còn bẩn thỉu, áo quần rách rưới, nên mẹ con khinh cha, chưa nói : “Đích thị là chàng rồi !”. […]

     — Telemachus, my son! Don’t you bother your mother, she still wants to put me to trials at this home. She will recognize me eventually, there is no doubt about that. I still look like a rascal, in torn clothes, that is why your mother still doubts me, she is yet to say: “It was definitely you this whole time!”. […]

• (reduplicated): cỏn con (“tiny”)
• (reduplicated): con con (“rather small”)

con (昆, 𡥵)

1. (rare, only in compounds) a small thing

   con quay

   a spinning top

   con lắc

   a pendulum

• tử

con (昆, 𡥵)

1. I (used when talking to your parents)
2. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I (used when talking to someone (presumably) much older)
3. you (used when talking to your child)
4. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you (used when talking to someone (presumably) much younger)

   Là con thật!

   It's you for real!

• Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.

• (you (4)): cháu

con

1. Indicates animals (including humans).
2. Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.
3. Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.
4. (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.

   Anh mày có hẳn hai con xe Honda đấy nhớ!

   I have two Honda motorbikes!

• Even though con người is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and người does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese 人 (nin)). Một con người "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while một người sounds casual enough.
• The phrase con người is popularly employed as philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.

• cái

Related to Persian جان‎ (jân).

con ?

1. soul