corvette

• corvet (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from French corvette.

IPA^(key): /kɔːɹˈvɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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.
   1. (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role

• Corvette
• corvette captain

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.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.vɛt/

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corvette f (plural corvettes)

1. corvette

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

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

corvette f

1. plural of corvetta