Etymology

fauchon

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French fauchon ← 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. French · borrowed fromfauchon
  5. English todayfauchon

Borrowed from French fauchon, from Old French fauchon (cognate with Italian falcione), from Vulgar Latin *falciōnem, from Latin falx. See also -on.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchfauchon all →

Vulgar Latin*falciōnem all →

Latinfalx all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.