flibustier
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French flibustier.
Noun
editflibustier (plural flibustiers)
- (obsolete) A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.
- 1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.
- I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious.
- 1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.
References
edit- “flibustier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”). The spelling with fl- is often considered to be due to influence from Dutch vlieboot or a descendant of that word. The spelling with -s- began to appear in the early eighteenth century.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /fli.bys.tje/
Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
editflibustier m (plural flibustiers)
- a filibuster, a pirate
Descendants
edit- → English: flibustier
- → Italian: filibustiere
- → Russian: флибустьер (flibustʹjer)
- → Spanish: filibustero
- → English: filibuster
- → Chinese: 費力把事拖/费力把事拖 (fèilìbǎshìtuō)
- → Dutch: filibuster
- → Indonesian: filibuster
- → English: filibuster
Further reading
edit- “flibustier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French flibustier.
Noun
editflibustier m (plural flibustieri)
- a filibuster, a pirate
Declension
editDeclension of flibustier
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flibustier | flibustierul | (niște) flibustieri | flibustierii |
genitive/dative | (unui) flibustier | flibustierului | (unor) flibustieri | flibustierilor |
vocative | flibustierule | flibustierilor |
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