canton (state of Switzerland) · canton · canton (military enrollment district of Prussia, made obsolete by introduction of universal conscription in 1813)
canton (of Switzerland, France, Luxembourg or Bosnia-Herzegovina) · township (of Canada) · canton
çekim: çoğul cantons
köken: Inherited from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (from the 1240s), from Old Occitan canton (“corner; canton”) (recorded before 1218), adopted in Occitan from North Italian (Gallo-Italic, early Lombard) cantone (“edge, corner; canton”), ultimately representing Latin cant- (“rim (of a wheel)”) with the addition of the -ō (accusative -ōnem) suffix forming augmentatives in Romance.
Guangzhou (a major prefecture-level city and port, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China) · Guangdong (a populous province of China, located on the southern coast)
çekim: çoğul cantões
köken: From Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng). Compare Spanish Cantón, English Canton, French Canton, Italian Canton, Russian Кантон (Kanton).