falcon

FREQ #9011

n. 隼, 猎鹰

发音

UK /ˈfɔː(l)kən/
UK /ˈfɒlkən/
US /ˈfælkən/
US /ˈfɑːlkən/
AU /ˈfælkən/
/ˈfoːlkən/
NZ /ˈfɛlkən/

词形变化

falcons 复数 falcons falconed falconing falcons 三单 falconing 现在分词 falconed 过去式 falconed 过去分词

别名

faulcon faucon

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

    隼

  2. 2.

    Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.

  3. 3.

    A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.

    体育
  4. 4.

    A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.

    历史
v.
  1. 1.

    To hunt with a falcon or falcons.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

hawk

下位词 10

hobby merlin peregrine kestrel American kestrel caracara gerfalcon gyrfalcon peregrine falcon pigeonhawk
动词

上位词 4

run hunt hunt down track down

相关短语

Falcon tube Falcon tubes golden falcon name golden falcon names peregrine falcon n. 游隼 laughing falcon lanner falcon forest falcon New Zealand falcon shaheen falcon blue falcon brown falcon prairie falcon red-footed falcon pygmy falcon

词源

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”). Cognates Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

来源：wiktionary