kanón
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kanon"
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Kanone, from Italian cannone, from canna (“tube”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanón m inan
- (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...
- (military) a kind of cannon with a long strong barrel
- (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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- kanon (gun)
Synonyms
[edit]- (cannon): dělo
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “kanon”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 288
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