Noun: flibustier
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | flibustier |
| Plural m | flibustiers |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like flibustier
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 unetymological spelling with -s- began to appear in the early eighteenth century. See: Dutch Nouns '
vrijbuiter'.
Verbs referencing "flibustier"
English Nouns
filibuster, Dutch Nouns
filibuster, Spanish Nouns
filibustero, Italian Nouns
filibustiere, Russian Nouns
флибустьер, English Nouns
flibustier, Romanian Nouns
flibustier.
Translations