guenon

English

a guenon (Cercopithecus neglectus)

Etymology

Borrowed from French guenon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈnoʊn/, /ˈɡwɛn.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -oʊn, -ɛnən

Noun

guenon (plural guenons)

1. An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus.

Derived terms

• Diana guenon (Cercopithecus diana)
• green guenon (Cercopithecus aethiops)
• moustached guenon (Cercopithecus cephus)
• owl-faced guenon (Cercopithecus hamlyni)
• Preuss's guenon (Cercopithecus preussi)
• red-bellied guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster)
• red-eared guenon (Cercopithecus erythrotis)
• red-tailed guenon (Cercopithecus ascanius)
• rock guenon (Erythrocebus patas)
• savanna guenon (Chlorocebus spp.)
• Sclater's guenon (Cercopithecus sclateri)
• spot-nosed guenon (Cercopithecus spp.)
• sun-tailed guenon (Cercopithecus solatus)
• tantalus guenon (Chlorocebus tentalus))
• terrestrial guenon (Allochrocebus spp.)
• white-nosed guenon (Cercopithecus nictitans)
• white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster)

 

Translations

monkey of the genus Cercopithecus

• Bulgarian: гвенон m (gvenon), морска котка f (morska kotka)
• Catalan: cercopitec m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長尾猴／长尾猴 (zh) (chángwěihóu)

• Czech: kočkodan (cs) m
• Dutch: meerkat (nl)
• Esperanto: simiino
• Finnish: marakatti (fi)
• French: guenon (fr) f
• Galician: cercopiteco m
• German: Meerkatze (de) f
• Greenlandic: aapakaatsiaq
• Italian: cercopiteco (it) m
• Japanese: オナガザル (onagazaru), 尾長猿 (おながざる, onagazaru)
• Korean: 긴꼬리원숭이 (ginkkoriwonsung'i)
• Polish: koczkodan (pl) m
• Portuguese: cercopiteco m
• Russian: марты́шка (ru) f (martýška)
• Spanish: cercopiteco m, mono del viejo mundo
• Swedish: markatta (sv)
• Ukrainian: мартишка (martyška)

References

• guenon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cercopithecus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cercopithecus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Gunnoe, ungone

French

Etymology

From guen(ipe) +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡə.nɔ̃/

Noun

guenon f (plural guenons)

1. (obsolete) guenon
2. (female) monkey
3. (derogatory) hag, old bag (ugly woman)

Further reading

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