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Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

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.

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

fagot m (plural fagots)

  1. bassoon (wind instrument)

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

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)

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]

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

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

  1. bassoon
  1. ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  • “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Inherited from Middle French fagot.

fagot m (plural fagots)

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

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.

fagot (plural fagot-fagot)

  1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)
dwa fagota

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

fagot m inan

  1. (music) bassoon

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)

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)
dwa fagoty

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

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.

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

  1. bassoon (reed instrument)

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

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

  1. bassoon

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

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).

fagọ̑t m inan

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

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

  1. bassoon (reed instrument)
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fagot (plural fagotlar)

  1. bassoon (reed instrument)