flageolet

Borrowed from French flageolet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæʒəleɪ/, /ˈflæd͡ʒəlɪt/

flageolet (plural flageolets)

1. (music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.
2. (music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
3. A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

• “flageolet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• flageolet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /fla.ʒɔ.lɛ/

From Old French flajol (“flute”) + diminutive -et; probably from Vulgar Latin *flabeolum (“flute”), from Latin flāre (“to blow”).

flageolet m (plural flageolets)

1. (music) flageolet (type of small flute)

• → English: flageolet
• → Spanish: flajolé, flageolet

Borrowed from Italian fagiolo (“bean”), from Latin phaseolus (“bean”), diminutive form of phasēlus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”).

flageolet m (plural flageolets)

1. A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

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

Unadapted borrowing from French flageolet. First attested in 1839.

• IPA^(key): /flaxeoˈlet/ [fla.xe.oˈlet̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: fla‧ge‧o‧let

flageolet m (plural flageolets)

1. (music) flageolet (a type of small flute) [from mid-19th c.]

   Synonym: flajolé

• “flageolet”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN