fagot

English

Alternative forms

• faggot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæɡ.ət/

Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot (bundle of sticks)
   • 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. Alternative form of faggot (shrivelled old woman)
3. Alternative form of faggot (a homosexual person, particularly a man)
4. 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.
5. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
6. (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

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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.

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Anagrams

• TOGAF

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɣɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [faˈɣɔt]

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

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

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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

From Italian fagotto. So called from being divided into parts for ease of carrying, making it a sort of small bundle or fagot.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

Derived terms

• basfagot m
• fagottist m, fagotspeler m

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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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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 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

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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:

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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 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

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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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	fagót
gen. sing.	fagóta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	fagót	fagóta	fagóti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	fagóta	fagótov	fagótov
dative (dajȃlnik)	fagótu	fagótoma	fagótom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	fagót	fagóta	fagóte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	fagótu	fagótih	fagótih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	fagótom	fagótoma	fagóti

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

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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 Nominative 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 Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular fagotumu fagotlarımı 2nd singular fagotunu fagotlarını 3rd singular fagotunu fagotlarını 1st plural fagotumuzu fagotlarımızı 2nd plural fagotunuzu fagotlarınızı 3rd plural fagotlarını fagotlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular fagotuma fagotlarıma 2nd singular fagotuna fagotlarına 3rd singular fagotuna fagotlarına 1st plural fagotumuza fagotlarımıza 2nd plural fagotunuza fagotlarınıza 3rd plural fagotlarına fagotlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular fagotumda fagotlarımda 2nd singular fagotunda fagotlarında 3rd singular fagotunda fagotlarında 1st plural fagotumuzda fagotlarımızda 2nd plural fagotunuzda fagotlarınızda 3rd plural fagotlarında fagotlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular fagotumdan fagotlarımdan 2nd singular fagotundan fagotlarından 3rd singular fagotundan fagotlarından 1st plural fagotumuzdan fagotlarımızdan 2nd plural fagotunuzdan fagotlarınızdan 3rd plural fagotlarından fagotlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular fagotumun fagotlarımın 2nd singular fagotunun fagotlarının 3rd singular fagotunun fagotlarının 1st plural fagotumuzun fagotlarımızın 2nd plural fagotunuzun fagotlarınızın 3rd plural fagotlarının fagotlarının