frégate

See also: fregate and Frégate

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁe.ɡat/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fregata.

Noun

frégate f (plural frégates)

1. (nautical) frigate (a number of different classes of ships)
2. frigatebird

Derived terms

• Frégate
• frégater

 

Descendants

• → English: frigate
• → Romanian: fregată
• → Russian: фрега́т (fregát)
  • → Kazakh: фрегат (fregat)

Etymology 2

Verb

frégate

1. inflection of frégater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

frégate f (plural frégates)

1. (Jersey, nautical) frigate

Derived terms

• frégatîn (“sailor”)