Translation
sword
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Examples
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The soldier drew his sword.
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He killed the wild beast with the sword.
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Swords hung on the walls of the castle.
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The king gave him a golden sword.
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Against words the sword is useless.
A is the straight blade; the curved cavalry weapon is a and the light fencing one a spado. The holder suffix gives o, a scabbard, on the same pattern as o. This is corpus-heavy rather than conversation-heavy vocabulary: it earns its place in the top thousand because so much early Esperanto prose is translated fairy tale and history, where swords are drawn on roughly every third page.
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Word family
Words built on glavo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- glavingonoun
scabbard, sheath
glavo-ing-: a holder for a sword
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 1: glavo, raporto, angulo and 7 more words.