spadassin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French spadassin, itself from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”).
Noun[edit]
spadassin (plural spadassins)
- a fighter, duelist.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Bully-swordsmen, ‛Spadassins’ of that party, go swaggering; or indeed they can be had for a trifle of money.
Derived terms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Noun[edit]
spadassin m (plural spadassins, diminutive spadassintje n)
- (rare, obsolete) Alternative spelling of spadassijn
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian spadaccino.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spadassin m (plural spadassins)
Descendants[edit]
- → Dutch: spadassijn, spadassin
- → English: spadassin
- → Romanian: spadasin
Further reading[edit]
- “spadassin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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