# bison
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”). The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈbaɪ̯sən/, (US also) /ˈbaɪ̯zən/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪsən, -aɪzən

### Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons or (rare) bisontes)
* A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

#### Coordinate terms

* bovid
* bovine
* buffalo
* cattle
* cow
* wisent

#### Derived terms

* American bison
* bison grass
* European bison
* Higgs bison
* Indian bison
* North American bison
* plains bison
* steppe bison
* wood bison

#### Translations
### Further reading

* 1 2 “bison”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* 1 2 “bison”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* 1 2 “bison”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* ↑ “bison”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* Ibson, binos, bions

## French
### Etymology

1307, from Latin bison.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.zɔ̃/
* un bison:(file)

### Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)
* buffalo (North American bison)
* wisent (European bison)

#### Derived terms

* bison d’Amérique
* bison d’Europe

#### Descendants

* → Russian: бизо́н (bizón)
** → Armenian: բիզոն (bizon)

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English bison, from Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbisɔn]
* Hyphenation: bi‧son

### Noun

bison (uncountable)
* bison: a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

### Further reading

* “bison” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology

1st century; together with Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn) (2nd century; cf. modern Greek βίσονας (vísonas)) borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbi.soːn/, [ˈbɪs̠oːn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbi.son/, [ˈbiːs̬on]

### Noun

bisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension
* bison (Bison bonasus)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

### Further reading

* “bison”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norman
### Etymology

From Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

### Noun

bison f (plural bisons)
* (Jersey) bison