estandart
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Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of disputed origin. According to Barnhart, Watkins, and others, derived from Frankish *standhard (“stable, fixed”, adjective, literally “standing firm”), from Frankish *standan (“to stand”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, firm”).[1][2] OED dismisses this as folk etymology and instead derives the term from Old French estendre (“to stretch, extend, spread”).[3] The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales also supports the Germanic origin above.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: estendard
- → English: standard
- Middle French: estendard
- French: étendard
- → Italian: stendardo
- → Romanian: stindard
- → Portuguese: estandarte
- → Sicilian: stinnardu
- → Spanish: estandarte
References
[edit]- ^ “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.