Gasconとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Gascoyne, from Anglo-Norman gascoign, gascun et al., Middle French gascon, from Latin plural Vascōnēs. Compare Basque. Doublet of Vascon.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡæs.kən/
• 韻: -æskən

名詞

Gascon (plural Gascons)

1. A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     I am a Gascoine, and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.

   • 1948 November 1, “The New Pictures”, in Time:

     Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.

2. (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.
3. A breed of cow from Gascony

形容詞

Gascon (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Gascony.
2. (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

固有名詞

Gascon

1. The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

アナグラム

• Cogans, congas