brigantine

English

a brigantine rigged vessel

Etymology 1

1525, a small rowing vessel, brigandyns, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigare (“to fight”).

Noun

brigantine (plural brigantines)

1. (nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

Synonyms

• hermaphrodite brig (the synonymy is controversial)

Translations

square-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel

• Czech: brigantina (cs) f
• Dutch: brigantijn f
• Finnish: brigantiini
• French: brigantine (fr) f
• German: Brigantine (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: brigantino (it)
• Maori: pereki
• Polish: brygantyna (pl) f
• Russian: бриганти́на (ru) f (brigantína)
• Swedish: brigantin c

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

brigantine (plural brigantines)

1. Alternative form of brigandine

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French

Noun

brigantine f (plural brigantines)

1. trapeze-shaped type of sail

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

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