corvette

See also: Corvette

English

Alternative forms

• corvet (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French corvette.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔːɹ.ˈvɛt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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.
   1. (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role

Derived terms

• Corvette
• corvette captain

Translations

warship of 17th-18th century

• Catalan: corbeta (ca) f, bricbarca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護衛艦／护卫舰 (zh) (hùwèijiàn)

• Czech: korveta (cs) f
• Finnish: korvetti (fi)
• French: corvette (fr) f
• German: Korvette (de) f
• Japanese: コルベット (korubetto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korvett m

  Nynorsk: korvett m

• Polish: korweta (pl) f
• Russian: корве́т (ru) m (korvét)
• Ukrainian: корве́т m (korvét)

modern warship

• Arabic: فرقيطَة f
• Basque: korbeta f
• Catalan: corbeta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 护卫舰 (zh) (hùwèijiàn)

• Czech: korveta (cs) f
• Danish: korvet
• Dutch: korvet (nl)
• Estonian: korvett
• Finnish: korvetti (fi)
• French: corvette (fr) f
• Galician: corveta f
• German: Korvette (de) f
• Greek: κορβέττα f (korvétta)
• Hebrew: קורבטה (he) f
• Hungarian: korvett (hu)
• Icelandic: korvetta
• Indonesian: korvet (id)
• Italian: corvetta (it) f
• Japanese: コルベット (korubetto)
• Lithuanian: korvetė
• Macedonian: корвета f (korveta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korvett m

  Nynorsk: korvett m

• Persian: ناوچه سبک
• Polish: korweta (pl) f
• Portuguese: corveta (pt) f
• Russian: корве́т (ru) m (korvét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корвета f

  Roman: korveta (sh) f

• Slovene: korveta f
• Spanish: corbeta (es) f
• Swedish: korvett (sv)
• Turkish: korvet (tr)
• Ukrainian: корве́т m (korvét)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.vɛt/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

corvette f (plural corvettes)

1. corvette

Descendants

• → Catalan: corbeta
• → Danish: korvet
• → English: corvette
• → Dutch: korvet
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوروت (korvet)
  • Turkish: korvet
• → Portuguese: corveta
• → Spanish: corbeta

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

corvette f

1. plural of corvetta