fagot
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot (plural fagots)
- Alternative form of faggot
- c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
- (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
- (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company [18th century].
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)
- (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[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, OCLC 228727437:
- He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian fagotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m (plural fagots)
- bassoon (wind instrument)
References[edit]
- “fagot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m
- bassoon (musical instrument)
Declension[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)
- bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
Declension[edit]
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fagot | fagotten | fagotter | fagotterne |
genitive | fagots | fagottens | fagotters | fagotternes |
References[edit]
- “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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. [1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Further reading[edit]
- “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French fagot.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m (plural fagots)
- fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “fagot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Lower Sorbian[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m
Declension[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot (plural fagotes)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “fagot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-1.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French fagot.
Noun[edit]
fagot m (plural fagots)
- fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto.
Noun[edit]
fagot m (oblique plural fagoz or fagotz, nominative singular fagoz or fagotz, nominative plural fagot)
- fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fagot, supplement)
- fagot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m inan
Declension[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- fagot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fagot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian fagotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot n (plural fagoturi)
- bassoon (reed instrument)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) fagot | fagotul | (niște) fagoturi | fagoturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) fagot | fagotului | (unor) fagoturi | fagoturilor |
vocative | fagotule | fagoturilor |
References[edit]
- fagot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Noun[edit]
fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)
Declension[edit]
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, genitive plural fagotov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- fagot in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Slovene[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagọ̑t m inan
Inflection[edit]
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | fagót | ||
gen. sing. | fagóta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | fagót | fagóta | fagóti |
accusative | fagót | fagóta | fagóte |
genitive | fagóta | fagótov | fagótov |
dative | fagótu | fagótoma | fagótom |
locative | fagótu | fagótih | fagótih |
instrumental | fagótom | fagótoma | fagóti |
Further reading[edit]
- “fagot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “fagot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian fagotto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)
- bassoon (reed instrument)
Declension[edit]
Uzbek[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fagot (plural fagotlar)
- bassoon (reed instrument)
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