mendicant vs Franciscan

mendicant and Franciscan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mendicant	Yes	Yes	No	No
Franciscan	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Franciscan is a hyponym of mendicant; that is, Franciscan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mendicant:

mendicant: a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
Franciscan: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order

mendicant (noun)	Franciscan (noun)
a pauper who lives by begging	a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

mendicant (adjective)	Franciscan (adjective)
practicing beggary	of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him