fagot

• faggot

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɡ.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æɡət
• Homophone: faggot

fagot (plural fagots)

1. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

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

   • 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:

     "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."

2. Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
3. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company [18th century].

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.
   • 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:

     He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell

• TOGAF

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɣɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [faˈɣɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

fagot m (plural fagots)

1. bassoon (wind instrument)

• fagotista

• “fagot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaɡot]

fagot m inan

1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): /faɡɔt/, [faˈɡ̊ʌd̥], [fɑˈɡ̊ʌd̥]

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

• “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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. ^[1]

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• IPA^(key): /faːˈɣɔt/
• Hyphenation: fa‧got
• Rhymes: -ɔt

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

1. bassoon

• basfagot
• fagotspeler
• fagottist

• → Indonesian: fagot

• “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Inherited from Middle French fagot.

• IPA^(key): /fa.ɡo/

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fagot m (plural fagots)

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

• de derrière les fagots
• sentir le fagot

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

From Dutch fagot, from Italian fagotto. So called from being divided into parts for ease of carrying, making it a sort of small bundle or fagot.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/ [ˈfa.ɡɔt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡɔt
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot (plural fagot-fagot)

1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

• “fagot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡɔt/

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

• faggett, faget, ffagott, fakett, fagett

Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/, /ˈfaɡət/, /ˈfakət/

fagot (plural fagotes)

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

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

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

From Old French fagot.

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto.

fagot oblique singular, 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)

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɔt
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot m inan

1. (music) bassoon

• fagot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fagot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

• “fagot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

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

fàgot m inan (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

1. bassoon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡɔt/

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

1. (music) bassoon

• “fagot”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /faɡóːt/

fagọ̑t m inan

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	fagót
gen. sing.	fagóta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	fagót	fagóta	fagóti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	fagóta	fagótov	fagótov
dative (dajȃlnik)	fagótu	fagótoma	fagótom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	fagót	fagóta	fagóte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	fagótu	fagótih	fagótih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	fagótom	fagótoma	fagóti

• “fagot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /faˈɡot/ [faˈɣ̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: fa‧got

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)

1. (music) bassoon

• “fagot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Italian fagotto, from Vulgar Latin *facus, either from Latin fascis (“bundle of wood”) or from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”).

• IPA^(key): [fɑˈɡot]

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)

fagot (plural fagotlar)

1. bassoon (reed instrument)