espee
See also: espée
Middle French
Alternative forms
- espée (16th and 17th centuries)
Etymology
From Old French espee.
Noun
espee f (plural espees)
Descendants
References
- espee on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old French
Alternative forms
- spede (9th century)
Etymology
From earlier spede, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).
Noun
espee oblique singular, f (oblique plural espees, nominative singular espee, nominative plural espees)
- sword
- circa 1150, Author unknown, La Chanson de Roland:
- Cler en riant l’ad dit a Guenelun :
« Tenez m’espee, meillur n’en at nuls hom[. »]- Clearly laughing, he [the king] said to Guenelun
"Take hold of my sword, no man has better".
- Clearly laughing, he [the king] said to Guenelun
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (espee, supplement)
- espee on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Categories:
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
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- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
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