Word Origin Summary

Vrijbuiter is attested in Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• farabutto

  Italian · borrowed from

• filibuster

  Dutch · derived from

• flibustier

  French · borrowed from

• filibustiere

  Italian · derived from

• filibuster

  English · derived from

• filibuster

  Indonesian · derived from

• flibustier

  English · borrowed from

• filibustero

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root