la
/e.pe/
Translation
sword
Word origin
From Latin spatha ('broad flat blade, sword'), itself borrowed from Greek spathe. The same Latin word gives English 'spatula' and, through Italian, 'spade' in the card sense.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- spatha
- English cognates
- spatula, epee, spade
Grammar
Examples
expose quinzième .
The museum is showing a sword from the fifteenth century.
' .
He drew his sword and nobody moved.
l' .
My daughter has been fencing with the epee for three years.
Cette , c' Damoclès au- .
That threat is a sword of Damocles hanging over us.
L' , l' .
The sword was too heavy for him, so he put it down.
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