Terminology record for harpoon
RECORD
| Record No.: | 163/en/295 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Harpon statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | |||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Harpon | |||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | |||
| DÉFINITION |
Très grosse instrument en forme de flèche de métal fixée à un câble attaché au bateau qui sert à prendre les gros poissons, les cétacés (baleines, etc.). | |||
| PLURIEL | Harpon ; | |||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Harpoon status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||
| PLURAL | Harpoons ; | |||
| ETYMOLOGY | Borrowing from Middle French harpon ‘harpoon’, divisible into harper, ‘to fish with a grapple hook’, and -on, ‘object’; from Germanic harpan, ‘to seize’; early 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’. | |||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||
| DEFINITION |
a long, spear-like weapon used to hunt large fish or marine mammals, such as whales | |||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||
