Pirate - Wiktionary

See also: Pirate, pyrate, and piraté

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:pirateWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• pyrate (obsolete)

Etymology

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From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪɹət/, [ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪt]
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪɹət/

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• (Indic) IPA(key): /paiɾeːʈ/
• Hyphenation: pir‧ate

Noun

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pirate (plural pirates)

1. (crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. Synonyms: buccaneer, corsair, sea-robber; see also Thesaurus:pirate You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
2. An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part—
3. (by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. Synonym: bootlegger
   • 2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 178: And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
   • 2004, David Lubar, Dunk, page 20:They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
   • 2008, Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, page 21:If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate, what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.
4. (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
5. A kind of marble in children's games.
   • 1999, Abdelkader Benali, Susan Massotty, Wedding by the Sea, page 60:Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.

Derived terms

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• air pirate
• antipirate
• arch-pirate
• archpirate
• bee pirate
• biopirate
• butt pirate
• cyberpirate
• land pirate
• minute pirate bug
• piracy
• piratable
• pirate articles
• pirate bug
• piratebush
• pirated
• piratelike
• pirately
• pirate perch
• pirate radio
• pirate round
• pirate ship
• pirateship
• pirate shirt
• pirate spider
• piratess
• pirateware
• piratey
• piratic
• piratical
• piratism
• poo pirate
• porch pirate
• puddle pirate

Descendants

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• → Niuean: pairēti

Translations

[edit] one who plunders at sea

Afrikaans: seerower Albanian: pirat (sq) m Arabic: قُرْصَان m (qurṣān) Armenian: ծովահեն (hy) (covahen) Asturian: pirata m or f Azerbaijani: pirat Belarusian: піра́т m (pirát) Bengali: জলদস্যু (bn) (joldosśu) Breton: morlaer m Bulgarian: пира́т (bg) m (pirát) Burmese: ပင်လယ်ဓားပြ (my) (panglaidha:pra.) Catalan: pirata (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 海盜 / 海盗 (hoi2 dou6) Mandarin: 海盜 / 海盗 (zh) (hǎidào), 海賊 / 海贼 (zh) (hǎizéi) Cornish: morlader m, morladres f Czech: pirát (cs) m Danish: sørøver c, pirat c Dutch: piraat (nl) m, zeerover (nl) m, kaper (nl) m, vrijbuiter (nl) m, boekanier (nl) m Esperanto: pirato, marrabisto Estonian: piraat, mereröövel Faroese: sjórænari m Finnish: merirosvo (fi) French: pirate (fr) m, corsaire (fr) m, boucanier (fr) m (buccaneer), flibustier (fr) m (filibuster) Galician: pirata m or f Georgian: მეკობრე (meḳobre) German: Pirat (de) m, Seeräuber (de) m, Korsar (de) m Greek: πειρατής (el) m (peiratís), πειρατίνα (el) f (peiratína) Ancient Greek: πειρατής m (peiratḗs) Gujarati: ચાંચિયો m (cā̃ciyo) Hebrew: שׁוֹדֵד יָם (he) m (shodéd yam), בּוּקָנִיר (he) m (bukanir) Hindi: जलदस्यु (hi) m (jaldasyu), समुद्री डाकू (samudrī ḍākū), समुद्री लुटेरा (samudrī luṭerā), जहाज़ी डाकू (jahāzī ḍākū), जलडाकू m (jalḍākū) Hungarian: kalóz (hu) Icelandic: sjóræningi (is) m Ido: pirato (io) Indonesian: bajak laut (id) Irish: píoráid m, foghlaí mara m Italian: pirata (it) m, corsaro (it) m, bucaniere (it) m Japanese: 海賊 (ja) (かいぞく, kaizoku) Kannada: ಕಡಲುಗಳ್ಳ (kn) (kaḍalugaḷḷa), ಸಮುದ್ರಚೋರ (kn) (samudracōra), ಕೃತಿ ಚೋರ (kn) (kṛti cōra), ಸ್ವಾಮ್ಯ ಚೋರ (kn) (svāmya cōra) Kazakh: қарақшы (qaraqşy), пират (pirat) Khmer: ចោរ (km) (cao) Korean: 해적(海賊) (ko) (haejeok) Kyrgyz: пират (pirat), каракчы (ky) (karakcı) Lao: ໂຈນສລັດ (chōn sa lat), ສະຫລັດ (sa lat), ສລັດ (sa lat) Latin: pirata (la) m Latvian: pirāts m Lithuanian: piratas (lt) m, jūrinas m Macedonian: пират m (pirat), гусар m (gusar) Malay: lanun Maltese: pirata m Māori: kaipāhua tai, kaitiora Norman: pirate m (Jersey) Norwegian: pirat (no) m Bokmål: sjørøver (no) m, pirat (no) m Nynorsk: sjørøvar m, pirat m Occitan: pirata (oc) Old English: wīċing m Persian: دزد دریایی (dozd-e daryâyi) Polish: pirat (pl) m, korsarz (pl) m, bukanier (pl) m Portuguese: corsário (pt) m, pirata (pt) m, bucaneiro (pt) m Romanian: pirat (ro) m Russian: пира́т (ru) m (pirát), пира́тка (ru) f (pirátka), корса́р (ru) m (korsár), флибустье́р (ru) m (flibustʹjér) (dated) Scottish Gaelic: spùinneadair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пират m, гусар m Latin: pirat (sh) m, gusar (sh) m Sicilian: pirata (scn) m or f Slovak: pirát m Slovene: gusar m, pirat m Somali: burcad badeed Spanish: pirata (es) m, bucanero (es) m Swahili: haramia (sw) Swedish: sjörövare (sv) c, pirat (sv) c, buckanjär (sv) c Tagalog: tulisang-dagat, pirata (tl), lintawanin Tajik: роҳзани дарёӣ (rohzan-i daryoyi), роҳзани баҳрӣ (rohzan-i bahri), ғоратгар (ġoratgar), дузд (tg) (duzd), карақчи (karaqč-i) Tamil: கடற்கொள்ளையன் m (kaṭaṟkoḷḷaiyaṉ), கடற்கொள்ளைக்காரன் m (kaṭaṟkoḷḷaikkāraṉ) Telugu: దొంగవాడ (doṅgavāḍa) Thai: โจรสลัด (th) (joon-sà-làt) Tibetan: མཚོ་ཇག (mtsho jag) Turkish: korsan (tr) Ottoman Turkish: قرصان (korsan), ملك (melik) Turkmen: garakçy, pirat Ukrainian: піра́т m (pirát) Uzbek: qaroqchi (uz), pirat, dengiz qaroqchisi Vietnamese: cướp biển (vi), hải tặc (vi) (海賊) Welsh: môr-leidr (cy) m, môr-ysbeiliwr m,

armed ship

Bulgarian: пиратски кораб m (piratski korab) Chinese: Mandarin: 海盜船 / 海盗船 (zh) (hǎidàochuán) Finnish: merirosvolaiva Galician: barco pirata Hindi: दस्युपोत (dasyupot), दस्यु-जहाज़ (dasyu-jahāz), दस्यु-नौका (dasyu-naukā) Hungarian: kalózhajó (hu) Japanese: 海賊船 (ja) (kaizokusen) Korean: 해적선(海賊船) (haejeokseon) Russian: пиратский корабль m (piratskij korablʹ) Sicilian: navi pirata f Spanish: barco pirata m

one who breaks intellectual property laws

Bulgarian: плагиат (bg) m (plagiat) Catalan: pirata (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 盜版業者 / 盗版业者 (dàobǎn yèzhě) Czech: pirát (cs) m Danish: pirat c Dutch: piraat (nl) m Estonian: piraat Faroese: piratur m Finnish: piraatti (fi) French: pirate (fr) Galician: pirata m or f German: Pirat (de) m, Raubkopierer (de) m Greek: πειρατής (el) m (peiratís) Hungarian: kalóz (hu) Japanese: 海賊 (ja) (かいぞく, kaizoku) Norwegian: Bokmål: pirat (no) m Nynorsk: pirat m Polish: pirat (pl) m Portuguese: pirata (pt) m Russian: пира́т (ru) m (pirát) Sicilian: pirata (scn) m or f Spanish: pirata (es) m Swedish: pirat (sv) c Turkish: korsan (tr) Welsh: copïwr anghyfreithlon m

Verb

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pirate (third-person singular simple present pirates, present participle pirating, simple past and past participle pirated)

1. (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
2. (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
   • 1904, Edward Elgar, in a speech on 4 July, 1904:If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.
3. (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
   • 2002, John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, page 343:In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
   • 2004, Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing:College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
   • 2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library, Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85:Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.
4. (intransitive) To engage in piracy. He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
5. (transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Synonyms

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• (appropriate by piracy):
• (make illegal copy): plagiarize, counterfeit
• (engage in piracy):

Derived terms

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• unpirateable

Translations

[edit] appropriate by piracy

Catalan: piratejar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: pirateren, zeeroven (nl) Finnish: kaapata (fi) French: pirater (fr) Galician: piratear (gl) Greek: κουρσεύω (el) (koursévo) Hungarian: kalózkodik (hu) Italian: pirateggiare Portuguese: piratear (pt) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: piratear (es)

make and/or sell an illegal copy

Catalan: piratejar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 盗版 (zh) (dàobǎn), 盜版 / 盗版 (zh) (dàobǎn) Danish: piratkopiere Dutch: pirateren Finnish: harjoittaa piratismia French: pirater (fr) Galician: piratear (gl) German: raubkopieren (de), schwarzkopieren Greek: πειρατεύω (el) (peiratévo) Hungarian: kalózkodik (hu) Malay: mencetak rompak Norwegian: piratkopiere Polish: (colloquial) piracić (pl) impf, piratować Portuguese: piratear (pt) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: piratear (es) Tagalog: mamirata Turkish: korsan satış yapmak

engage in piracy

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: pirati Finnish: harjoittaa merirosvousta Polish: piracić (pl) impf, spiracić pf Russian: пиратить (ru) (piratitʹ), спиратить (ru) (spiratitʹ), пиратствовать (ru) (piratstvovatʹ) Spanish: piratear (es)

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Adjective

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pirate (not comparable)

1. Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

Synonyms

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• pirated
• counterfeit

Translations

[edit] illegal imitated or reproduced

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: gepirateerd Finnish: piraatti (fi) French: piraté (fr) Greek: πειρατικός (el) m (peiratikós) Hungarian: kalóz (hu) Icelandic: sjóræningi (is) Malay: cetak rompak (ms) Norwegian: piratkopiert Polish: piracki (pl) m Portuguese: pirateado (pt) Russian: пира́тский (ru) (pirátskij) Turkish: korsan (tr)

See also

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• Jolly Roger
• skull and crossbones

Anagrams

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• pratie, pteria, eartip, Patrie, tepari, partie

Esperanto

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Etymology

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pirato (“a pirate”, noun) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /piˈrate/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: pi‧ra‧te

Adverb

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pirate

1. piratically

Related terms

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• pirata (“piratical”)
• pirati (“to pirate”)

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French pirate, borrowed from Latin pīrāta.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /pi.ʁat/

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Noun

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pirate m or f by sense (plural pirates)

1. pirate Synonyms: boucanier m, corsaire m, flibustier m

Derived terms

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• piratage
• pirate de l'air
• pirate informatique
• pirater
• piraterie
• piraterie de l'air
• piraterie informatique

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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• paitre, paître, parité, partie, patrie, prêtai, repait, repaît

Lithuanian

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): (piratè) [pʲɪrɐˈt̪ʲɛ], (pirãte) [pʲɪˈrä̌ːt̪ʲɛ]

Noun

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piratè

1. locative singular of pirãtas (“pirate”)

Noun

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pirãte

1. vocative singular of pirãtas (“pirate”)

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).

Noun

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pirate m (plural pirates)

1. (Jersey) pirate

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin pīrāta.

Noun

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pirate oblique singular, m (oblique plural pirates, nominative singular pirates, nominative plural pirate)

1. pirate (one who attacks watercraft)

Descendants

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• Middle French: pirate
  • French: pirate
  • → Dutch: piraat
• Norman: pirate
• → Middle English: pirate
  • English: pirate

References

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• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “pirate”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Spanish

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Verb

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pirate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of pirar combined with te