corvette

See also Corvette

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• corvet (rare)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology

Borrowing from French corvette.

Noun

corvette (plural corvettes)

1. (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
2. (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

Translations

warship of 17th-18th century

• Catalan: corbeta (ca) f, bricbarca (ca) f
• Czech: korveta (cs) f

• Finnish: korvetti (fi)

modern warship

• Arabic: فرقيطة (ar) f
• Basque: korbeta (eu) f
• Catalan: corbeta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 护卫舰 (cmn) (hùwèijiàn)

• Czech: korveta (cs) f
• Danish: korvet (da)
• Dutch: korvet (nl)
• Estonian: korvett (et)
• Finnish: korvetti (fi)
• French: corvette (fr) f
• Galician: corveta (gl) f
• German: Korvette (de) f
• Greek: κορβέττα (el) f (korvétta)
• Hebrew: קורבטה (he) f
• Hungarian: korvett (hu)
• Icelandic: korvetta (is)

• Indonesian: korvet (id)
• Italian: corvetta (it) f
• Japanese: コルベット (ja) (korubetto)
• Lithuanian: korvetė (lt)
• Norwegian: korvett (no)
• Persian: ناوچه سبک (fa)
• Polish: korweta (pl) f
• Portuguese: corveta (pt) f
• Russian: корвет (ru) (korvét) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корвета (sh) f

  Roman: korveta (sh) f

• Slovene: korveta (sl) f
• Spanish: corbeta (es) f
• Swedish: korvett (sv)
• Turkish: korvet (tr)
• Ukrainian: корвет (uk) m (korvet)

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French

Etymology

From Middle Dutch korf, korver (“a kind of ship”), or Middle Low German korf (“a kind of ship and basket”), +‎ -ette. Possibly ultimately connected to Latin corbita (navis), "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship," which is from corbis.

Noun

corvette f (plural corvettes)

1. corvette

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Italian

Noun

corvette f

1. Plural form of corvetta