Etymology

brigantine

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Today it means: a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast. Full definition →

Middle French brigandin ← Italian brigante ← Latin brigō
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brigantine · noun1

  1. Latin · derived frombrigō“to fight”
  2. Italian · derived frombrigante“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”
  3. Middle French · derived frombrigandin
  4. English todaybrigantine

Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).

brigantine · noun2

Variant form.

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