filibustero

Spanish

FWOTD – 19 September 2018

Etymology

Borrowed from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /filibusˈteɾo/, [filiβusˈt̪eɾo]

Noun

filibustero m (plural filibusteros, feminine filibustera, feminine plural filibusteras)

pirate, plunderer, freebooter
- 2003, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Morgan y los piratas, El Nacional (→ISBN)
  El gobernador inglés de Jamaica concede patente de corso a los filibusteros, principalmente para que ataquen a las colonias españolas: atacan Costa Rica y Tobago.
  The English governor of Jamaica grants the plunderers letter of marque, mainly for them to attack Spanish colonies: they attack Costa Rica and Tobago.

Descendants

→ English: filibuster

Further reading

“filibustero” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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