sword · glaive · sword; the weapon as shown on a coat of arms
çekim: çoğul épées
köken: Inherited from Middle French espee, from Old French espee, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spathe, a borrowing from Latin, and espade, a borrowing from Occitan.
aile: coup d'épée dans l'eau, de cape et d'épée, épée de Damoclès, la plume est plus forte que l'épée, passer au fil de l'épée, qui vit par l'épée périra par l'épée
sword (a long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack) · spade (playing card marked with the symbol ♠) · épée (fencing sword of a certain modern type)
çekim: çoğul espadas
eş: fisberta, tizona, espadachín
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of espata.
aile: a capa y espada, comedia de capa y espada, con la espada desnuda, danza de espadas, desceñirse la espada, desnudar la espada, entrar espada en mano, entre la espada y la pared, espada de Damocles, espada de dos filos
köken: Related to Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos); either a loan, or from a common original source. The same word is probably preserved in Egyptian zft, Coptic ⲥⲏϥⲉ (sēfe). Dümichen (1867) suggested an Old Semitic saïf or sêf, Myres (1930) a possible Libyan or "Sea Peoples" word. The root س ي ف (s y f) is denominal. Compare Hebrew סַיִף (sáyif).
köken: From Middle Dutch swert, swaert, from Old Dutch swert, from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, of uncertain origin; see there for more.
sword (a long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack) · épée · singular of espadas (“spades”) (one of the four suits of playing cards)
çekim: çoğul espadas
eş: gládio
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
köken: From Old Swedish sværþ, from Old Norse sverð, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, from Proto-Indo-European *su̯r̥dhom, ultimately from *swer- (“to cut; to fester”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mëëkka, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz or its Gothic descendant (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more). Cognate with Estonian mõõk and Livonian mȭk.
köken: Inherited from Old Latin *fersom, borrowed from substrate language, of an unknown source. According to De Vaan, possibly from a Phoenician dialect; see 𐤁𐤓𐤆𐤋 (brzl /barzel/, “iron”), akin to Hebrew בַּרְזֶל (barzél), Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא, ܦܪܙܠܐ (parzəlā, “iron”), Akkadian 𒀭𒁇 (parzillum, “iron”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎗𐎏𐎍 (brḏl, “iron”), considered of Anatolian origin. The word could have entered Latin through…
aile: *exferrāre, ferrūgō
Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.
Ferro incumbere.
Hōs ego videō cōnsul et dē rē pūblicā sententiam rogō, et quōs ferrō trucīdārī oportēbat, eōs nōndum vōce volnerō!