Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

frigatoon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: friga-toon
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

Example Sentences

""Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?" "For the three-masted frigatoon." "You are doubtless mistaken in her character!" "I cannot be, my lord. No honest trader in these waters ever had such a rig. She is a pirate, and, if she is anywhere near us, will be sure to give us a taste of her quality ere long.""
"If he would fit out and man a frigatoon for Constantinople, I would, I said, gladly make the voyage therein, the money being packed and treated as my baggage, but none the less faithfully delivered by me to Signor Mario Battista[…]"

Etymology

From Italian fregatone. Compare French frégaton and see frigate.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: fregatone

Inflected Forms

frigatoons (plural)

Questions

What does frigatoon mean?: A Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
Where does frigatoon come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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