fagot

English

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fagot

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• faggot

Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɡ.ət/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æɡət
• Homophone: faggot

Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”)
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?

   • 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:

     "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."

2. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”)
3. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

Derived terms

• sap fagot

Verb

fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)

1. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
   • 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. , 3rd edition, London: J T and are to be sold by W. Davis , published 1682, →OCLC:

     He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell

Anagrams

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

Derived terms

• fagotista

References

• “fagot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fagot m inan

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Declension

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

fagot

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɡɔt/, ,

Noun

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Declension

References

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto. Later borrowed again from German Fagott. The theory that the name derives from a faggot of stick in reference to the way the parts of a bassoon are stored is a pseudo-etymology.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /faːˈɣɔt/
• Hyphenation: fa‧got
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

Derived terms

• basfagot
• fagotspeler
• fagottist

References

Further reading

• “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fagot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ɡo/

• Audio

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Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Derived terms

• de derrière les fagots
• sentir le fagot

Further reading

• “fagot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Noun

fagot (first-person possessive fagotku, second-person possessive fagotmu, third-person possessive fagotnya)

1. bassoon

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m inan

1. bassoon

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• faggett, faget, ffagott, fakett, fagett

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/, /ˈfaɡət/, /ˈfakət/

Noun

fagot (plural fagotes)

1. A piece of wood for burning; firewood.
2. A faggot or bavin (bundled sticks of wood)

Descendants

• English: faggot, fagot
• Scots: faggot
• Yola: fagoghes (plural)

References

• “fagot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-1.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fagot.

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot oblique singular, m (oblique plural fagoz or fagotz, nominative singular fagoz or fagotz, nominative plural fagot)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fagot, supplement)
• fagot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

fagot

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡɔt
• Syllabification: fa‧got

Noun

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• fagot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fagot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/

Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension

References

• fagot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

1. bassoon

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m inan (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, genitive plural fagotov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Further reading

• “fagot”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

fagot

Wikipedia ^sl

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɡóːt/

Noun

fagọ̑t m inan

1. (music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Inflection

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Further reading

• “fagot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: fa‧got

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fagot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension

Uzbek

Pronunciation

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Noun

fagot (plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)