corsaro
See also: Corsaro
Italian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“plunder, hostile inroad; course, a running”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /korˈsa.ro/
- Rhymes: -aro
- Hyphenation: cor‧sà‧ro
Adjective
corsaro (feminine corsara, masculine plural corsari, feminine plural corsare)
- (relational) privateering, pirate
Noun
corsaro m (plural corsari)
Derived terms
- nave corsara (“privateer (ship)”)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: قُرْصَان (qurṣān)
- → French: corsaire
- → English: corsair
- → German: Korsar
- → Ottoman Turkish: قرصان, قورصان
- Turkish: korsan
- → Romanian: corsar
- → Serbo-Croatian: gȕsār (likely)