Noun: spigot
| Singular | spigot |
| Plural | spigots |
Sample Sentences
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I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand. [1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 323:]
Nouns inflected like spigot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *spey-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *speikā
4. Latin spīcader.
5. Middle French espigeotbor.
6. Middle English spigot
7. English spigot
8. From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and Middle French espigeot. See: Middle English Nouns '
spigot', Latin Nouns '
spīca'.