Where does “brigantine” come from?
Brigantine comes from Italian brigante, from Italian brigare meaning to fight or quarrel, with the Latin diminutive suffix -inus and Proto-Indo-European -iHnos.
brigantine (English): a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the...
Definitions
- a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the...
Ancestry of “brigantine”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | brigantino | brig, brigantine |
| 2 | Italian | brigante | brigand, bandit; rascal; present participle of... |
| 3 | Italian | -ante | Used with a stem to form the present participle... |
| 4 | Latin | -āns | Ending of the present active participle of first conjugation verbs; see -ns |
| 5 | Latin | -ns | -ing; ending of the present active participle |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 7 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 8 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 9 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 10 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 11 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 12 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |