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单词 esalon
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esalonn.

Forms: 1500s easalon, 1500s–1600s esalon, 1600s aesalon.
Origin: Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Middle French esalon, Latin aesalōn.
Etymology: < Middle French esalon (1554 or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin aesalōn, a kind of falcon or hawk, perhaps the merlin (Pliny) < ancient Greek αἰσάλων (Aristotle), of unknown origin; perhaps of pre-Greek origin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈesalon.
Obsolete. rare.
Mis-spelling of Latin æsalon, the name of a bird of prey, ‘the rust-kite or moor-buzzard’ (Lewis and Short), ‘the merlin’ (Liddell and Scott); in context of first quot. it is said to be the smallest of the buzzard kind.
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the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [noun]
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fowl of chase1340
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard)
pittelOE
puttockc1175
buzzardc1300
esalon1572
boyter1578
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco columbarius (merlin)
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esalon1572
merlin hawk1572
stone falcon1656
stone hawk1736
pigeon hawka1782
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 27 Enemye to them [Ravens] is a lyttle Byrde called Easalon, which breaketh theire egges.
1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. xviii. 42 There is..a bitter enmity betwixt the litle bird called Esalon [L. egithus], and the Asse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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