Etymology

falchion

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Today it means: A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao. Full definition →

Middle English fauchoun ← Old French fauchon ← Vulgar Latin *falciōnem
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfalx
  2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*falciōnem
  3. Old French · derived fromfauchon
  4. Middle English · inherited fromfauchoun
  5. English todayfalchion

From Middle English fauchoun, from Old French fauchon (cognate with Italian falcione), from Vulgar Latin *falciōnem, from Latin falx.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.