fagot

Alternative forms

• faggot

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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 gay 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. (Britain, 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

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faɡɔt]

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

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)

References

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

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Noun

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

1. bassoon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/

Noun

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

1. (music) bassoon

Further reading

• fagot in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡóːt/
• Tonal orthography: fagọ̑t

Noun

fagót m inan (genitive fagóta, nominative plural fagóti)

1. (music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. (music) bassoon

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɑˈɡot]

Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. A bassoon (reed instrument)