barque

barque

English

A late development of the barque

The Russian 4-masted barque "Sedov" (built in Germany 1921) is still afloat.

Alternative forms

• bark

Etymology

From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːk/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: bark

Noun

barque (plural barques)

1. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
   • 1873 (published 1889, 1996), William Campbell, An Account of Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa, SMC Publishing Inc., page 279

     On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.

2. (archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
3. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
   • 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Fabliau of Florida, from collection Harmonium:

     Barque of phosphor
     On the palmy beach…

Synonyms

• (small vessel): see boat

Translations

sailing vessel, all masts but sternmost square-rigged

Catalan: bricbarca (ca) m Czech: bark (cs) m Danish: bark (da) c Dutch: zeilboot (nl) m, bark (nl) m Esperanto: barko Finnish: parkki (fi) French: barque (fr) f Hebrew: בַּרְקָה‎ (he) f (barka), בַּארְק‎ (he) m (bark) Maori: pāka Norwegian: Bokmål: bark (no) m Nynorsk: bark m Polish: bark (pl) m Russian: барк (ru) m (bark), па́русник (ru) m (párusnik) Spanish: bricbarca m Swedish: bark (sv) c, barkskepp n

archaic, any small sailing vessel

Czech: bárka (cs) f Dutch: zeilbootje (nl) m, bark (nl) m, schuit (nl) m Finnish: pursi (fi)

poetic, any sailing vessel or boat

Catalan: veler (ca) m Czech: bárka (cs) f Dutch: zeilboot (nl) m, schuit (nl) m Finnish: pursi (fi), venho (fi) Luxembourgish: Naachen m

Further reading

• barque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

barque

Etymology

From Middle French barque, probably borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca. Doublet of barge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁk/

• une barque

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Noun

barque f (plural barques, diminutive barquette)

1. small boat

Derived terms

• charger la barque

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• braque, braqué