garçon

• garcon

From French garçon m (1788), from Old French garçon, oblique case of gars m (“servant”), from Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakjō m (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô m (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”).

Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (“exile, warrior, hero”) (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio (“a banished person, exile, stranger”), Old English wreċċa (“a wretch, stranger, exile”), and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr (“man, warrior, hero”). More at wretch, wreak.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒn/, /ɡɑː(ɹ)ˈsɒ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɒn

garçon (plural garçons)

1. A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).

• en garçon

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

• Corgan, cargon

Borrowed from French garçon.

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garçon m (plural garçons, diminutive garçontje n)

1. waiter in a bar, restaurant etc.

   Synonyms: kelner, ober

Compare French garçon.

garçon m (plural garçons) (ORB, broad)

1. boy

   Synonym: fely

   Coordinate term: felye (“girl”)

2. son

   Synonym: fely

   Coordinate term: felye (“daughter”)

• garçon in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• garçon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Old French garçon m (“servant, boy”), from Early Medieval Latin garciōnem, accusative of garciō m (“mercenary, servant, boy”), from Frankish *wrakjō m (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô m (“exile, driven one”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/

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garçon m (plural garçons)

1. boy

   Synonym: gamin m

   Il a deux garçons et une fille.

   He has two boys and a girl.

2. (by extension) young man; man

   Synonym: homme m

3. Generic name of a male employee in some industries

   Hypernym: employé m

   Hyponyms: garçon de café m, garçon de ferme m, garçon de salle m

4. ellipsis of garçon de café

   Garçon, l'addition s'il vous plaît. ― Waiter, the bill please.

• fille f
• fils m

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

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

• garçaon (Guernsey)

Borrowed from French garçon. Displaced native hardé.

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garçon m (plural garçons)

1. (Jersey) boy

• garson, garceon, garçun

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin garciō m, from Frankish *wrakkjō m, from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô m.

garçon oblique singular, m (oblique plural garçons, nominative singular gars, nominative plural garçon)

1. manservant

   Synonym: vaslet

• Middle French: garçon, garson
  • French: garçon (see there for further descendants), gars
• Norman: garçon
• Picard: garchon
• → Middle English: garsoun, garson, garzun
• → Irish: gasúr, garsún
• → Portuguese: garoto

Unadapted borrowing from French garçon.

• Hyphenation: gar‧çon

garçon m (plural garçons)

1. alternative form of garçom