Noun: faon
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | faon |
| Plural m | faons |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like faon
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French faon, from Old French faon, feün, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, progeny”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-. Compare Occitan fedon. See: Latin Nouns '
fētus'.
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