different between barque vs brig

English

Alternative forms

• bark

Etymology

From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek ????? (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ????? (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian b?jr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of bark and barge. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophone: bark

Noun

barque (plural barques)

1. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
   • 1873 (published 1889, 1996), William Campbell, An Account of Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa, SMC Publishing Inc., page 279

     On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.

2. (archaic) any small sailing vessel
3. (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind
   • 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Fabliau of Florida, from collection Harmonium:

     Barque of phosphor
     On the palmy beach…

Synonyms

• (small vessel): see boat

Translations

Further reading

• barque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Middle French barque, probably borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca. Doublet of barge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Noun

barque f (plural barques, diminutive barquette)

1. small boat

Derived terms

• charger la barque

Further reading

• “barque” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• braque, braqué

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Translations

See also

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

Etymology 2

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugj?. Doublet of bridge.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.

Etymology 3

Clipping of brigadier

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• RGBI

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bry??.

Noun

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Alternative forms

• brigg, bryg, bregg

Descendants

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • ? English: brig, brigg

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?i??/

Noun

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

Mutation

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brik/

Noun

brig m

1. bank, shore (of a river)

Scots

Alternative forms

• brigg, breeg

Etymology

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Descendants

• ? English: brig, brigg

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English brig.

Noun

brig m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. A brig (two-masted vessel)

Synonyms

• brik

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri??/

Noun

brig m (plural brigau)

1. crest, peak, summit, top

Mutation