framea

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin framea.

Noun

framea f (plural framee)

1. javelin as used by the Germani

Anagrams

• Mafera

Latin

Etymology

In Germania, Tacitus says that this word was the Germans' own name for their spears. As such, we can assume the word is from Proto-Germanic. However, the specific reconstruction is uncertain; the most accepted one being *framjō (“lance, spear, javelin”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”) (see Frank). Another possible relative might be the poetic Old Norse þremjar (“swords”), in which case the Proto-Germanic ancestor term would start with þr-, not fr-. Another possibility is from Proto-Germanic *hramjō (“pole, perch”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hramō (“frame”).

Noun

framea f (genitive frameae); first declension

1. spear, javelin as used by the Germani
2. sword

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	framea	frameae
Genitive	frameae	frameārum
Dative	frameae	frameīs
Accusative	frameam	frameās
Ablative	frameā	frameīs
Vocative	framea	frameae

Descendants

• → French: framée (learned)
• → Italian: framea (learned)

Further reading

• “framea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “framea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• framea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• framea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “framea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “framea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin