franc-maçon

French

Etymology

franc (“free”) +‎ maçon (“mason”), a calque of English freemason.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔ̃/

Noun

franc-maçon m (plural francs-maçons, feminine franc-maçonne)

Freemason

Descendants

→ Catalan: francmaçó
→ Ottoman Turkish: فارماسون (farmason)
- Turkish: farmason
→ Polish: farmazon
→ Romanian: francmason
→ Russian: фармазо́н (farmazón)
- → Romanian: farmazon

Further reading

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

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