different between sabre vs epee

English

Alternative forms

• (chiefly US): saber

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian ?????? (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian ?????.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?(?)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?/
• Rhymes: -e?b?(?)
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre (plural sabres)

1. (Britain, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
2. (Britain, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

Usage notes

This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

Derived terms

• lightsaber, lightsabre
• sabrage

Translations

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

1. (Britain, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sabre.

See also

• sabrer
• sabreur

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, barse, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber

Asturian

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. Alternative form of sable

Basque

Alternative forms

• sable

Noun

sabre

1. sabre, saber

Catalan

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sa.b??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?e/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre

Further reading

• “sabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sabre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From German Säbel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab?/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. a single-edged sword
2. the force, arms
3. cutlassfish

Derived terms

• sabre laser
• tigre à dents de sabre

Descendants

• ? English: sabre

Further reading

• “sabre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• baser, brase, brasé

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.bre/
• Hyphenation: sà?bre

Noun

sabre m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Adjective

sabre (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sand

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?sa.????/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?i/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?e/
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre (military weapon)
2. sabre (fencing weapon)

Related terms

• espada, esgrima, florete

English

Alternative forms

• épee
• épée

Etymology

Borrowed from French épée. Doublet of spatha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pe?/, /?e?pe?/
• Homophone: epees

Noun

epee (plural epees)

1. (fencing) A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

Coordinate terms

• foil
• sabre

Derived terms

• epeeist

Translations