fagot

• faggot

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɡ.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æɡət
• Homophone: faggot

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”)
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

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

   • 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:

     "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."

2. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”)
3. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company [18th century].

• fagoter
• sap fagot

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.
   • 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:

     He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell

• TOGAF

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

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

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

• fagotista

• “fagot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaɡot]

fagot m inan

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

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

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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]

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

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

• basfagot
• fagotspeler
• fagottist

• → Indonesian: fagot

• “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Inherited from Middle French fagot.

• IPA^(key): /fa.ɡo/

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fagot m (plural fagots)

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

• de derrière les fagots
• sentir le fagot

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/ [ˈfa.ɡɔt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡɔt
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot (plural fagot-fagot)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

• “fagot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

• faggett, faget, ffagott, fakett, fagett

Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/, /ˈfaɡət/, /ˈfakət/

fagot (plural fagotes)

1. A piece of wood for burning; firewood.
2. A faggot or bavin (bundled sticks of wood)

• English: faggot, fagot
• Scots: faggot
• Yola: fagoghes (plural)

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

From Old French fagot.

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto.

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)

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɔt
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

• fagot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fagot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

• fagot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

1. bassoon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/

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

1. (music) bassoon

• “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, 2003–2024

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

• IPA^(key): /faɡóːt/

fagọ̑t m inan

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

• “fagot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

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

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/ [faˈɣ̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

• “fagot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): [fɑˈɡot]

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

fagot (plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)