flibustier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flibustier.

Noun

flibustier (plural flibustiers)

  1. (obsolete) A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.
    • 1845, Eugene Sue, The Female Bluebeard: Or, the Adventurer, tr. from French, publ. by W. Strange, page 209.
      I have even, to the great terror of Angelina, commanded it as a flibustier captain, in a certain encounter with a Spanish pirate, in which I came off victorious.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flibustier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Either borrowed from Dutch vrijbuiter or from a descendant from the Dutch such as English freebooter (or a variant with fl-). The spelling with fl- is often considered to be due to influence from Dutch vlieboot or a descendant of that word. The spelling with -s- began to appear in the early eighteenth century.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fli.bys.tje/
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Noun

flibustier m (plural flibustiers)

  1. a filibuster, a pirate
    Synonyms: boucanier m, corsaire m, pirate m

Descendants

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flibustier.

Noun

flibustier m (plural flibustieri)

  1. a filibuster, a pirate

Declension
Declension of flibustier
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) flibustier flibustierul (niște) flibustieri flibustierii
genitive/dative (unui) flibustier flibustierului (unor) flibustieri flibustierilor
vocative flibustierule flibustierilor
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