faucet

English

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Alternative forms

Variant spellings

(Middle English–15 th century): faucet faucett fawcett (16 th century): faucet faucett fawcet fawcett fawset

(17 th century): fasset faucet faucete faulsed faulset fauset

(18 th century): faucet faucit fausset fosset (19 th century): faucet forset fosset (20 th century–present): faucet (modern standard spelling)

A faucet.

Etymology

From Middle English faucet, fawcett.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: fôʹsĭt, IPA: /ˈfɔːsɪt/, SAMPA: /"fO:sIt/

  Rhymes: -ɔːsɪt

• (US) IPA: /ˈfɔsɪt/, SAMPA: /"fOsIt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈfɑsɪt/, SAMPA: /"fAsIt/

Noun

faucet (plural faucets)

1. (North America) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.

Synonyms

• tap, spigot

Hypernyms

• valve

Translations

plumbing fitting

Arabic: صنبور (ar) Morocco: روبيني (rūbīnī) Bosnian: slavina (bs) f. Catalan: aixeta (ca) f. Czech: kohoutek (cs) m. Dutch: kraan (nl) f. Finnish: hana (fi), vesihana (fi) French: robinet (fr) German: Mischbatterie (de) f., Wasserhahn (de) m., Armatur (de) f., Kran (de) m., Hahn (de) m. Hungarian: csap (hu), vízcsap (hu) Kurdish: zembere f., henef f., mislik f., henefî f., henîfe f. Macedonian: славина (mk) (slávina) f.

Norwegian: kran (no) m. Persian:  (fa) (šīr) Polish: kran (pl) m. Portuguese: torneira (pt) f. Romanian: robinet (ro) Russian: кран (ru) m. Slovene: pipa (sl) f. Spanish: grifo m., canilla f. (Argentina, Northern Central Spain, Paraguay, Uruguay), caño m. (Peru), llave f. (Bolivia, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela), paja f. (Nicaragua), pluma f. (Colombian Atlantic Coast) Turkish: musluk (tr)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• fawcett

Etymology

From Old French fausset, perhaps from Latin faux (“throat”).

Noun

faucet

1. faucet

Descendants

• English: faucet