Meanings
brigantine1
plural brigantines
- nauticala two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines, That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe, And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke, Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii1 more example
2007, August 26, One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, Episode 321, The King of Animals that Overlooks the Sea! The Dream Ship Magnificently Completed! Umi wo Nozomu Hyakujuu no Ou! Yume no Fune Doudou Kansei! (海を臨む百獣の王! 夢の船堂々完成!): [English captions, Nami, Iceburg, respectively] That big gaffsail seems to have a lot of mobility! It's called brigantine.
Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig
brigantine2
Brigantine3
- A city on a barrier island in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
More synonyms by meaning
nountwo-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast
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Origin
brigantine · noun
- Latinbrigō“to fight”
- Italianbrigante“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”
- Middle Frenchbrigandin
- Englishbrigantine
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”).
More words from Middle French, Italian, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech brigantina
- brigantinasquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Dutch brigantijn
- brigantijnsquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Finnish brigantiini
- brigantiinisquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
French brigantine
- brigantinesquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
German Brigantine
- Brigantinesquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Hungarian brigantin
- brigantinsquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Italian brigantino
- brigantinosquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Māori pereki
- perekisquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Polish brygantyna
- brygantynasquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Portuguese bergantim
- bergantimsquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Russian бриганти́на
- бриганти́на (brigantína)square-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Spanish bergantín
- bergantínsquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Swedish brigantin
- brigantinsquare-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
Cite this entry
brigantine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brigantine
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