basclon

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Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From bascle +‎ -on, or from Latin Vascones. See French basque for more. 12th-13th centuries Latin forms appear with and without the n, e.g. Medieval Latin basculi m pl.[1]

Noun

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basclon m

  1. (historical) Basque (person), someone from Basclonia or Terra Basclorum (Vasconia)
  2. (historical) routier, brigand, bandit, highwayman

References

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  1. ^ Bascli in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • basclon”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 20132024
  • Levy, Emil (1894) “Basclon”, in Provenzalisches Supplement-Wörterbuch : Berichtigungen und Ergänzungen zu Raynouards "Lexique roman", volume 1, page 131
  • Raynouard, François-Just-Marie (1838) “Basclos”, in Lexique roman, ou Dictionnaire de la langue des troubadours comparée avec les autres langues de l'Europe latine..., volume 2, page 191
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “bandit”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 23: Inconnus, pages 127–128