different between sword vs falcata

English

Alternative forms

• swerd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerd? (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh?w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic ???????? (sv?rd?l?, “drill”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophone: soared; sawed (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

sword (plural swords)

1. (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.
   • Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
2. (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
3. (tarot) A card of this suit.
4. (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
5. (heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

Coordinate terms

• (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, dagger, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)

1. To stab or cut with a sword

Anagrams

• words

Middle English

Alternative forms

• swerd, sord, sworde, zuord

Etymology

From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from); from Proto-Germanic *swerd?.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME; from sweord) IPA^(key): /swœrd/
• (From sweord) IPA^(key): /sw?rd/, /swurd/, /surd/
• IPA^(key): /sw?rd/, /s?rd/

Noun

sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)

1. sword, sabre
2. (figuratively) Military might or power.

Descendants

• English: sword
• Scots: swerd, sword

References

• “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sword/, [swor?d]

Noun

sword n (nominative plural sword) (Mercian)

1. Alternative form of sweord

English

Noun

falcata (plural falcatas)

1. (historical) A sword in pre-Roman Iberia having a concave edge to the blade.

Translations

Anagrams

• Calafat

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from English falcata, from Spanish falcata, reportedly coined by Fernando Fulgosio modelled on Latin falcatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?ka?.ta?/
• Hyphenation: fal?ca?ta

Noun

falcata f (plural falcata's)

1. (historical) A falcata; an Iberian single-edged curved sword.

Italian

Noun

falcata f (plural falcate)

1. (athletics) stride (of a runner)

Adjective

falcata

1. feminine singular of falcato

Latin

Adjective

falc?ta

1. nominative feminine singular of falc?tus
2. nominative neuter plural of falc?tus
3. accusative neuter plural of falc?tus
4. vocative feminine singular of falc?tus
5. vocative neuter plural of falc?tus

Adjective

falc?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of falc?tus

References

• falcata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

Coined in 1872 by Fernando Fulgosio, based on Latin falcatus (“sickle-shaped”). The term used in Roman sources is machaera Hispana.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /faw?ka.ta/

Noun

falcata f (plural falcatas)

1. falcata (ancient Iberian sword)
   • 1997, Rainer Daehnhardt, Homens, Espadas e Tomates, Publicações Quipu, page 255:

     A pega em forma de cabeça de cavalo é uma reminiscência da falcata lusitana, por sua vez descendente do tipo de arma indo-europeia.

     The hilt shaped as a horse's head is reminiscent of the Lusitanian falcata, which is in turn descendant of the Indo-European type of weapon.

Related terms

• espada, gládio, foice

Spanish

Etymology

Coined in 1872 by the Spanish historian and archaeologist Fernando Fulgosio, based on Latin falcatus (“sickle-shaped”). The term used in Roman sources is machaera Hispana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal?kata/, [fal?ka.t?a]

Noun

falcata f (plural falcatas)

1. falcata
   • 2003, Laura Alcalá-Zamora, La necrópolis ibérica de Pozo Moro, in Bibliotheca Archaeologica Hispana, page 123.