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.

References

• “flibustier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• filibuster

French

Etymology

From Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”). 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/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

flibustier m (plural flibustiers)

1. a filibuster, a pirate

   Synonyms: boucanier m, corsaire m, pirate m

Descendants

• → English: flibustier
• → Italian: filibustiere
• → Russian: флибустьер (flibustʹjer)
• → Spanish: filibustero
  • → English: filibuster
    • → Chinese: 費力把事拖／费力把事拖 (fèilìbǎshìtuō)
    • → Dutch: filibuster
    • → Indonesian: filibuster

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flibustier.

Noun

flibustier m (plural flibustieri)

1. a filibuster, a pirate

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	flibustier	flibustierul		flibustieri	flibustierii
genitive-dative	flibustier	flibustierului		flibustieri	flibustierilor
vocative	flibustierule			flibustierilor