dolabra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolābra (“pickaxe”).

Noun

dolabra (plural dolabrae)

1. An ancient axe or hatchet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dolabra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

1st-century Roman dolabra. Hill-fort of Besomaño, Galicia, Spain.

Etymology

From dol(ā) (“to hew”) +‎ -bra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /doˈlaː.bra/, [d̪ɔˈɫ̪äːbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /doˈla.bra/, [d̪oˈläːbrä]

Noun

dolābra f (genitive dolābrae); first declension

1. pickaxe

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dolābra	dolābrae
Genitive	dolābrae	dolābrārum
Dative	dolābrae	dolābrīs
Accusative	dolābram	dolābrās
Ablative	dolābrā	dolābrīs
Vocative	dolābra	dolābrae

References

• “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolabra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dolabra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dolabra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin