con

See also: Appendix:Variations of "con"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną.

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
      For Cassius is aweary of the world;
      Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
      Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
      Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
      To cast into my teeth.
    • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):
      At length, himself unsettling, he the pond
      Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look
      Upon the muddy water, which he conned,
      As if he had been reading in a book
    • 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
      I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
      During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.
    • 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
      The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
  2. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).

Noun

con (plural cons)

  1. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
    pros and cons
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of convict.

Noun

con (plural cons)

  1. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
Translations

Etymology 4

From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.

Noun

con (plural cons)

  1. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:deception
Translations

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
Synonyms
Translations

Etymology 5

From earlier cond; see conn.

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

  1. Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)

Noun

con (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)

Etymology 6

Clipping of convention or conference.

Noun

con (plural cons)

  1. (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

Etymology 7

Clipping of conversion.

Noun

con (plural cons)

  1. (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
    We're getting a loft con done next year.

Etymology 8

Clipping of consumption.

Noun

con (uncountable)

  1. (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

See also

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

  1. with

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

  1. with

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conus.

Noun

con m (plural cons)

  1. cone
  • cònic

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin cum

Preposition

con

  1. with

Etymology 2

From Latin cunnus.

Noun

con m

  1. (vulgar) vulva, cunt

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm.

Preposition

con

  1. with
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:
      Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberarius con menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
      As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign States with less territory than our three places, such as:

Antonyms

French

Etymology

From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European [Term?] origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃/
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Noun

con m (plural cons, feminine conne)

  1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy
  2. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)

Adjective

con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)

  1. (slang) stupid

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

  1. with

Antonyms

Derived terms

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɔnˠ]

Noun

con m

  1. genitive singular of cú

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
con chon gcon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon/

Preposition

con

  1. with, together
  2. (rowing) coxed

Usage notes

  • When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (old-fashioned, very rarely used apart from col and coi, which even then are uncommon):
con + article Combined form
con + il col
con + lo collo
con + l' coll'
con + i coi
con + gli cogli
con + la colla
con + le colle

Antonyms

Ladin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

  1. with
    Antonyms: zenza, zënza

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin cum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuŋ/

Preposition

con

  1. with
con + article Combined form
con + o co-o
con + a co-a
con + i co-i
con + e co-e

Muong

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *kuən. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.

Noun

con

  1. child

Classifier

con

  1. Indicates animals (including the human)

References

  • Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar]‎ (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin cunnus.

Noun

con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)

  1. (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)

See also

Descendants

Etymology 2

See conme.

Conjunction

con

  1. Alternative form of conme

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon/

Noun

con m

  1. genitive singular of cú
  2. genitive dual of cú
  3. genitive plural of cú

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
con chon con
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱón.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kõ/

Preposition

con

  1. with

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon/, [kõn]
  • Rhymes: -on

Preposition

con

  1. with
  2. on
    Yo cuento con ustedes.
    I count on you.

Antonyms

See also

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (reduplicated): cỏn con (“tiny”)
  • (reduplicated): con con (“rather small”)

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Muong con, Mon ကွေန် (kon), Khmer កូន (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese kōan.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier đứa) con (昆, 𡥵)

  1. child (daughter or son)
    con cóc con là con con cóc
    A toadlet is an offspring of a toad

Derived terms

See also

Pronoun

con (昆, 𡥵)

  1. I (refers to oneself when speaking to their parent(s))
  2. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I (refers to oneself when speaking to a (presumably) much older person, or one's grandparent(s))
  3. you (addressed to one's son or daughter)
  4. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you (addressed to a (presumably) much younger person, or one's grandchild/nephew/niece)
    Là con thật!
    It's you for real!

Usage notes

  • Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.

Synonyms

Classifier

con

  1. Indicates animals (including humans).
  2. Indicates things, such as knives, ships, boats, trains, irises, etc.
  3. Indicates natural phenomena, such as rivers, streams, waves, the nature or universe, etc.
  4. (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
    Anh mày có hẳn hai con xe Honda đấy nhớ!
    I have two Honda motorbikes!

Usage notes

  • Even though con người is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and người does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese 人 (nin)). Một con người "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while một người sounds casual enough.

See also

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian جان‎ (jân).

Noun

con ?

  1. soul
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