corvette

corvette

See also: Corvette

English

Alternative forms

• corvet (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from French corvette.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔːɹ.ˈvɛt/

• Audio (southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

corvette (plural corvettes)

1. (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; – called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
2. (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

Derived terms

• Corvette
• corvette captain

Translations

warship of 17th-18th century

Catalan: corbeta (ca) f, bricbarca (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 護衛艦／护卫舰 (zh) (hùwèijiàn) Czech: korveta (cs) f Finnish: korvetti (fi) French: corvette (fr) f German: Korvette (de) f Japanese: コルベット (korubetto) Norwegian: Bokmål: korvett m Nynorsk: korvett m Polish: korweta (pl) f Russian: корве́т (ru) m (korvét)

modern warship

Arabic: فرقيطَة‎ (ar) f Basque: korbeta f Catalan: corbeta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 护卫舰 (zh) (hùwèijiàn) Czech: korveta (cs) f Danish: korvet Dutch: korvet (nl) Estonian: korvett Finnish: korvetti (fi) French: corvette (fr) f Galician: corveta f German: Korvette (de) f Greek: κορβέττα f (korvétta) Hebrew: קורבטה‎ (he) f Hungarian: korvett Icelandic: korvetta Indonesian: korvet (id) Italian: corvetta (it) f Japanese: コルベット (korubetto) Lithuanian: korvetė Macedonian: корвета f (korveta) Norwegian: Bokmål: korvett m Nynorsk: korvett m Persian: ناوچه سبک‎ Polish: korweta (pl) f Portuguese: corveta (pt) f Russian: корве́т (ru) m (korvét) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: корвета f Roman: korveta (sh) f Slovene: korveta f Spanish: corbeta (es) f Swedish: korvett (sv) Turkish: korvet (tr) Ukrainian: корвет m (korvet)

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French

Etymology

From Middle Dutch korf, korver (“a kind of ship”), or Middle Low German korf (“a kind of ship and basket”), + -ette. Possibly ultimately connected to Latin corbita (navis), "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship," which is from corbis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.vɛt/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

corvette f (plural corvettes)

1. corvette

Descendants

• → Catalan: corbeta
• → Danish: korvet
• → English: corvette
• → Dutch: korvet
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوروت‎ (korvet)
  • Turkish: korvet
• → Portuguese: corveta
• → Spanish: corbeta

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

corvette f

1. plural of corvetta