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English

Etymology

From French

Noun

magot (plural magots)

1. (archaic) The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.
   • 1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex (volume 31, page 16)

     The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.

2. (art) A seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory, of a grotesque form

Anagrams

• AMGOT

French

Etymology

Unknown/uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?o/

Noun

magot m (plural magots)

1. (colloquial) pile (of money), hoard
2. a commercial agent

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• magat, maked

Etymology

Variant of maddok by metathesis.

Noun

magot (plural magots)

1. a maggot, bedbug

Descendants

• English: maggot
• Yola: maghogès (plural)

References

• “magot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

magot m (plural magots)

1. (Jersey) maggot

Romanian

Etymology

From French magot.

Noun

magot m (plural mago?i)

1. magot

Declension

Volapük

Noun

magot (nominative plural magots)

1. statue

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• faggot

Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fæ?.?t/

Homophone: faggot

Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot
   • 1588, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, Act 3 Scene 1:

     What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?

2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
3. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (Britain, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

Verb

fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)

1. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.

Anagrams

• TOGAF

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f????t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa???t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

Czech

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa??t]

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa??t/, [fa????d?], [f?????d?]

Noun

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Declension

References

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto. Later borrowed again from German Fagott. The theory that the name derives from a faggot of stick in reference to the way the parts of a bassoon are stored is a pseudo-etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa????t/
• Hyphenation: fa?got
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

Derived terms

• basfagot
• fagotspeler
• fagottist

References

French

Etymology

From Middle French fagot

Pronunciation

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Derived terms

• sentir le fagot

Further reading

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

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa???t/

Noun

fagot m

1. bassoon

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• faggett, faget, ffagott, fakett, fagett

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa??t/, /?fa??t/, /?fak?t/

Noun

fagot (plural fagotes)

1. A piece of wood for burning; firewood.
2. A faggot or bavin (bundled sticks of wood)

Descendants

• English: faggot, fagot
• Scots: faggot
• Yola: fagoghes (plural)

References

• “fagot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-1.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fagot

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto

Noun

fagot m (oblique plural fagoz or fagotz, nominative singular fagoz or fagotz, nominative plural fagot)

1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fagot, supplement)
• fagot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.??t/

Noun

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Related terms

• fagocista m, fagocistka f
• fagotowy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. bassoon

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa??t/

Noun

fagot m (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, genitive plural fagotov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Further reading

• fagot in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?ó?t/

Noun

fag??t m inan

1. (music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From French fagot (“bundle of sticks”) (referring to the wood used to make the instrument).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa??ot/, [fa???ot?]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Hyphenation: fa?got

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

Derived terms

• fagotista

Further reading

• “fagot” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f???ot]

Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. A bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension