# fagot
## English
### Alternative forms

* faggot

### Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfæɡ.ət/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡət
* Homophone: faggot

### Noun

fagot (plural fagots)
* 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."
* Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”)
* (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
* (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company [18th century].

#### Derived terms

* fagoter
* sap fagot

### Verb

fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)
* (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
** 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell

### Anagrams

* TOGAF

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɣɔt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [faˈɣɔt]
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)
* bassoon (wind instrument)

#### Derived terms

* fagotista

### References

* “fagot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfaɡot]

### Noun

fagot m inan
* bassoon (musical instrument)

#### Declension
## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faɡɔt/, [faˈɡ̊ʌd̥], [fɑˈɡ̊ʌd̥]

### Noun

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)
* bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

#### Declension
### References

* “fagot” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /faːˈɣɔt/
* Hyphenation: fa‧got
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)
* bassoon

#### Derived terms

* basfagot
* fagotspeler
* fagottist

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: fagot

### References

* ↑ 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

### Further reading

* “fagot” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fagot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.ɡo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)
* fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

#### Derived terms

* de derrière les fagots
* sentir le fagot

### Further reading

* “fagot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈfaɡɔt/ [ˈfa.ɡɔt̪̚]
* Rhymes: -aɡɔt
* Syllabification: fa‧got

### Noun

fagot (plural fagot-fagot)
* bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

### Further reading

* “fagot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈɡɔt/

### Noun

fagot m inan
* (music) bassoon

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* faggett, faget, ffagott, fakett, fagett

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fagot; further etymology is disputed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɡɔt/, /ˈfaɡət/, /ˈfakət/

### Noun

fagot (plural fagotes)
* A piece of wood for burning; firewood.
* A faggot or bavin (bundled sticks of wood)

#### Descendants

* English: faggot, fagot
* Scots: faggot
* Yola: fagoghes (plural)

#### References

* “fagot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-1.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French fagot.

### Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)
* fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

## Old French
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin and Italian fagotto.

### Noun

fagot oblique singular, m (oblique plural fagoz or fagotz, nominative singular fagoz or fagotz, nominative plural fagot)
* fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (fagot, supplement)
* fagot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.ɡɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡɔt
* Syllabification: fa‧got

### Noun

fagot m inan
* (music) bassoon

#### Related terms

* fagocista
* fagocistka
* fagotowy

### Further reading

* fagot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fagot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈɡot/

### Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)
* bassoon (reed instrument)

#### Declension
### References

* fagot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)
* bassoon

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɡɔt/

### Noun

fagot m inan (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, genitive plural fagotov, declension pattern of dub)
* (music) bassoon

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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

## Slovene
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faɡóːt/

### Noun

fagọ̑t m inan
* (music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “fagot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faˈɡot/ [faˈɣ̞ot̪]
* Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: fa‧got

### Noun

fagot m (plural fagots or fagotes)
* (music) bassoon

#### Derived terms

* fagotista

### Further reading

* “fagot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fagotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fɑˈɡot]

### Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)
* bassoon (reed instrument)

#### Declension
## Uzbek
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

fagot (plural fagotlar)
* bassoon (reed instrument)