flacon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flacon.

Noun

flacon (plural flacons)

A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
- Longfellow
  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

From Middle French flascon, from Latin flascō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fla.kɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

flacon m (plural flacons)

vial, flacon.

Descendants

→ Dutch: flacon
→ English: flacon
- → Danish: flakon

Further reading

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

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