Noun: franco
| Singular | franco |
| Plural | francos |
Sample Sentences
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The anglos have seen the whole of the country, and the continent, as hospitable, while the francos have over a long period come to view Quebec as their real homeland. [1977, Report on Confederation:]
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Something similar had occurred in Canada, where first of all the sector is divided between anglos and francos; […] [1998, Dick Bird, Never the Same Again: A History of VSO, Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, →ISBN, page 193:]
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“Language is always an issue in Quebec and here’s a play that both anglos and francos will have a language problem with,” Ackerman says. [2011, Katharine Goodland, John O’Connor, A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance since 1991, volumes 3 (Canada and USA), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 153:]
Nouns inflected like franco
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian franco (“French”). Doublet of franc and frank. See: Italian Nouns '
franco'.