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Definition: GASCON |
GASCONAdjective1. Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. Noun1. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade. |
Date "GASCON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Gascon \Gas"con\, adjective. [French expression]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Gascon language is an Occitan dialect mostly spoken in Gascony (in the French departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, a part of Lot-et-Garonne, a part of Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège), and in the small Spanish valley Val d'Aran, in the Northwest of Catalonia. Some linguists consider it a separate language but usually these are not speakers of Gascon. Gascon comprises four subdialects:Of these, only Aranese is spoken in Spain. Aranese has been greatly influenced by Catalan and Aragonese. This influence differentiates it from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France. Aranese is co-official with Spanish and Catalan in the Val d'Aran.
- Landese (Landais)
- Bearnese (Béarnais)
- Ariegese (Ariégeois)
- Aranese (Aranès)
Gascon and the Basque language have had mutual influences.
External link
- Ethnologue report for Gascon
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gascon language."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gascony (Gascogne in French) is a region in southwest France. It encompasses départements of Landes, Gers, and Hautes-Pyrénées and parts of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, and Ariège.
Main industries are :
Gascony was inhabited to a large extent by Basques. It is the home of the Gascon language.
- fishing
- stock raising
- wine making
- brandy distilling
- tourism
History of Gascony
Local Basque clans were in Gascony lands from time immemorial. First it was taken over by the Roman Empire, then the Visigoths, and finally it belonged to the Frankish Kingdom. With its deterioration, it emerged for a time as a separate state and, in fact, has retained even to this day a reputation for nurturing a stubborn and independent people.
Timeline :
The most important towns are :
- the Roman Empire 27 BC-395 CE
- the Western Roman Empire 395-418
- the Visigoths 418-507
- the Franks 507-511
- Neustria 511-719
- the Carolingian Empire 719-872
- Dukes of Gascony under the Carolingians
- Loup I 768-774
- Loup II 774-778
- Adaric 778-812 with
- Loup III and
- Sancho 778-c 823 with
- Siguin I 812-816 and
- Loup IV and
- Siguin 812-c 819 and
- Garcia Siguin 816-818 and
- Totilon 819- ?
- Aznarc 823-836
- Siguin II ? -846
- William I 846-848
- Sancho
- Sancion 848-864
- Arnold 864-872
- Kingdom of Gascony (872-1032)
- Sancho I Mitarra 872- ?
- Sancho II
- Garcia 886-920
- Sancho III 920- ?
- Sancho IV ? -960
- William 960-999
- Bernard William 999-1009
- Sancho III William 1009-1032
- France 1032-1039
- Dukes of Gascony
- Berenger 1032-1036
- Eudes 1036-1039
- Navarre 1039-1052
- Aquitaine 1052-1137
- France 1137-1152
- England 1152-1449
- France thereafter
- Bayonne
- Biarritz
- Luchon
- Tarbes
- Dax
- Lourdes
- and the historical capital Auch
External link
- This article incorporates some information taken from http://www.hostkingdom.net/ with permission
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gascony."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy; (fop). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Paris combines in one wonderful type which has had real existence, and actually elbowed us, the Greek nudity, the Hebrew ulcer, the Gascon jest |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "GASCON" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "GASCON" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.31% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (common) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GASCON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gascon | Last name | 1,000 | 15,508 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GASCON": Anglo-gascon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gascon | 9 |
cercle gascon | 3 |
gascon sonny | 3 |
beret gascon | 3 |
alex gascon | 2 |
adrian gascon jr | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GASCON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gaskon, mburranik. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самохвалко (blower, blusterer, boaster, bouncer, brag, cutup, fanfaron, mouther, swaggerer), гасконец. (various references) | |
Dutch | opschepper, Gasconjer. (various references) | |
Esperanto | gaskono. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagyzoló (gassy, humbug, magniloquent, roister-doister, roistering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascongay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gascão. (various references) | |
Russian | хвастун (blusterer, boaster, bouncer, braggart, mouther, swaggerer, swashbuckler), гасконец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gaskonac. (various references) | |
Swedish | gaskonjare, gascognare. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người xứ Ga-xcô-nhơ người khoe khoang khoác lác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GASCON": gasconade, gasconaded, gasconader, gasconaders, gasconades, gasconading, gascons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GASCON" (pronounced ga"skun) |
| 3 | -k u n | falcon, awaken, bacon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, forsaken, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, misspoken, mistaken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reawaken, reckon, republican, retaken, second, shaken, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, taken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unshaken, unspoken, waken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: congas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: agons, canso, conga. | |
-2 letters: agon, cans, cogs, cons, goas, nags, naos, nogs, ocas, sago, sang, scag, scan, snag, snog, song. | |
-3 letters: ago, can, cog, con, cos, gan, gas, goa, gos, nag, nog, nos, oca, ons, sac, sag, son. | |
-4 letters: ag, an, as, go, na, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: cognacs, garcons, gascons. | |
+2 letters: acrogens, aglycons, agnostic, campongs, cantdogs, clangors, coagents, coamings, coasting, coatings, cognates, coinages, congeals, congrats, crannogs, decagons, guanacos, octagons, organics, solacing. | |
+3 letters: accosting, aglycones, agnostics, agonistic, ascogonia, carousing, cheongsam, clangours, coastings, collagens, comanages, cousinage, cozenages, crannoges, cyanogens, gasconade, gasolinic, glucagons, golcondas, logicians, nostalgic, octangles. | |
+4 letters: absconding, anchorages, arrogances, ascogonium, cairngorms, caliginous, callousing, canonising, chalcogens, chamoising, cheongsams, clangorous, coagencies, coagulants, coalescing, coarsening, coassuming, cognations, collapsing, collegians, comanagers, commonages, compassing, conjugants, conjugates, contagions, contagious, costarring, cotangents, cousinages, cradlesong, diagnostic, dodecagons, egomaniacs, encourages, escaloping, focalising, gasconaded, gasconader, gasconades, geomancers, geomancies, gerfalcons, gluconates, gyrfalcons, hopsacking, ignorances, incognitas, localising, magnificos, mosaicking, nostalgics, opalescing, organicism, organicist, organismic, osculating, poignances, pugnacious, recoinages, saprogenic, scalloping, showcasing, sonicating, stockading, stomaching, ungracious, vocalising. | |
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