kanón

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kanon"

Czech

FWOTD – 22 April 2021

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kanone, from Italian cannone, from canna (“tube”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkanoːn]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧nón

Noun

kanón m inan

  1. (colloquial) cannon [since 19th c.]
    • 1937, Karel Čapek, “Akt druhý - Obraz druhý”, in Bílá nemoc‎[1]:
      Poslyšte, kdybyste vy řekl baronu Krügovi,… aby přestal vyrábět kanóny a munici…
      Listen, if you told baron Krüg,... to stop producing cannons and ammunition...
  2. (military) a kind of cannon with a long strong barrel
    • 1995, Miloš Soukup, Moderní vojenská technika‎[2], Vojenská akademie Brno, →ISBN, page 63:
      Výzbroj tanku tvoří 100mm kanón typ 59, […]
      The tank is armed with a 100mm cannon type 59, […]
  3. (colloquial, complimentary) a very competent person
    • 2014, Pavel Bakič, Noční pád‎[3], Kniha Zlín, translation of Night Fall by Nelson DeMille, →ISBN, page 272:
      Chápu, proč tady tomu šéfujete. Jste kanón.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of kanón (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative kanón kanóny
genitive kanónu kanónů
dative kanónu kanónům
accusative kanón kanóny
vocative kanóne kanóny
locative kanónu kanónech
instrumental kanónem kanóny

Alternative forms

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “kanon”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 288

Further reading

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