flanc

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈflaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈflaŋk]

Noun

flanc m (plural flancs)

1. flank

Derived terms

• flanquejar

Further reading

• “flanc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flanc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “flanc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flanc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• flans pl (Old Beaujolais)
• flan (Savoyard)
• flan (Valdôtain)

Noun

flanc (ORB, narrow)

1. Alternative form of fllanc (“side”)

References

• Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎^[1], University of Paris, page 587

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French flanc, from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. Cognate with Italian fianco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

flanc m (plural flancs)

1. side (of person); side, flank (of animal)
2. (military) flank
3. side, slope (of mountain etc.)
4. (heraldry) flaunch

Derived terms

• prêter le flanc
• tirer au flanc

Related terms

• flanquer

Descendants

• → Catalan: flanc
• → Dutch: flank
• → German: Flanke
• → Portuguese: flanco
• → Romanian: flanc
• → Spanish: flanco

Further reading

• “flanc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. More at English flank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflank/
• Rhymes: -ank

Noun

flanc oblique singular, m (oblique plural flans, nominative singular flans, nominative plural flanc)

1. side; flank (anatomy, side of a person)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     El flanc senestre li a l'espié bagnié

     He bathed this sword in his left side

Descendants

• Middle French: flanc
  • French: flanc (see there for further descendants)
  • Jersey Norman: flianc
• → Franco-Provençal: fllanc, hlyon, lyon, hyan, flian, flanc, flans, flan, flan
• → Middle English: flanc, flanke, flaunke
  • English: flank
  • Scots: flank

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flanc.

Noun

flanc n (plural flancuri)

1. flank

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	flanc	flancul		flancuri	flancurile
genitive-dative	flanc	flancului		flancuri	flancurilor
vocative	flancule			flancurilor