bison

From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”). The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯sən/,^[1][2][3][4] (US also) /ˈbaɪ̯zən/^[1][2][3]

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• Rhymes: -aɪsən, -aɪzən

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons or (rare) bisontes)

1. A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Ibson, binos, bions

1307, from Latin bison.

• IPA^(key): /bi.zɔ̃/

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bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

• → Russian: бизо́н (bizón)
  • → Armenian: բիզոն (bizon)

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

From English bison, from Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbisɔn]
• Hyphenation: bi‧son

bison (plural bison-bison)

1. bison: a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison

• “bison” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

1st century; together with Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn) (2nd century; cf. modern Greek βίσονας (vísonas)) borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ.soːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.s̬on]

bisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Third-declension noun.

• “bison”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison