fagot

See also: fagòt

English

Alternative forms

• faggot

Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɡ.ət/

Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot
   • 1588, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, Act 3 Scene 1:

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

2. 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.
3. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (Britain, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Anagrams

• TOGAF

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fəˈɡɔt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

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Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faɡɔt]

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	fagot	fagoty
genitive	fagotu	fagotů
dative	fagotu	fagotům
accusative	fagot	fagoty
vocative	fagote	fagoty
locative	fagotu	fagotech
instrumental	fagotem	fagoty, fagotama

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɡɔt/, [faˈɡ̊ʌd̥], [fɑˈɡ̊ʌd̥]

Noun

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Declension

Declension of fagot

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fagot	fagotten	fagotter	fagotterne
genitive	fagots	fagottens	fagotters	fagotternes

References

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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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

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French

Etymology

From Middle French fagot

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

Further reading

• “fagot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Lower Sorbian

dwa fagota

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon

Declension

Declension of fagot

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fagot	fagota	fagoty
Genitive	fagota	fagotowu	fagotow
Dative	fagotoju	fagotoma	fagotam
Accusative	fagot	fagota	fagoty
Instrumental	fagotom	fagotoma	fagotami
Locative	fagośe	fagotoma	fagotach

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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

References

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fagot

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto

Noun

fagot 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

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Polish

dwa fagoty

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

declension of fagot

	singular	plural
nominative	fagot	fagoty
genitive	fagotu	fagotów
dative	fagotowi	fagotom
accusative	fagot	fagoty
instrumental	fagotem	fagotami
locative	fagocie	fagotach
vocative	fagocie	fagoty

Related terms

• fagocista m, fagocistka f
• fagotowy

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension

Declension of fagot

	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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

1. bassoon

Declension

Declension of fagot

	singular	plural
nominative	fagot	fagoti
genitive	fagota	fagota
dative	fagotu	fagotima
accusative	fagot	fagote
vocative	fagote	fagoti
locative	fagotu	fagotima
instrumental	fagotom	fagotima

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Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/

Noun

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

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Declension of fagot

	singular	plural
nominative	fagot	fagoty
genitive	fagotu	fagotov
dative	fagotu	fagotom
accusative	fagot	fagoty
locative	fagote	fagotoch
instrumental	fagotom	fagotmi

Further reading

• fagot in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Slovene

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

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡod/, [faˈɣoð]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Hyphenation: fa‧got

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

Derived terms

• fagotista

Further reading

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

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɑˈɡot]

Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. A bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	fagot
Definite accusative	fagotu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fagot	fagotlar
Definite accusative	fagotu	fagotları
Dative	fagota	fagotlara
Locative	fagotta	fagotlarda
Ablative	fagottan	fagotlardan
Genitive	fagotun	fagotların
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular fagotum fagotlarım 2nd singular fagotun fagotların 3rd singular fagotu fagotları 1st plural fagotumuz fagotlarımız 2nd plural fagotunuz fagotlarınız 3rd plural fagotları fagotları