corvette

== English == === Alternative forms === corvet (obsolete) === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French corvette. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔːɹˈvɛt/ Rhymes: -ɛt === Noun === corvette (plural corvettes) (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. (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty. (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role ==== Derived terms ==== Corvette corvette captain corvette lieutenant ==== Translations ==== == 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/ === Noun === corvette f (plural corvettes) corvette ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: corbeta → Czech: korveta → Danish: korvet → Dutch: korvet → English: corvette → German: Korvette → Finnish: korvetti → Italian: corvetta → Norwegian Bokmål: korvett → Norwegian Nynorsk: korvett → Ottoman Turkish: قوروت (korvet) Turkish: korvet → Portuguese: corveta → Romanian: corvetă → Swedish: korvett → Spanish: corbeta === Further reading === “corvette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Noun === corvette f plural of corvetta