saltire
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Saint Patrick's Cross, a red saltire (sense 1) on a white background
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sawtoure, from Old French sautoir (“stile, saltire”) (compare French sautoir (“saltire”)), from sauter (“to jump, to leap”) + -oir (“suffix forming objects”), from Latin saltāre (“to dance, to jump”) + -orium, -oria.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsæl.taɪə/, /ˈsɔːl-/
- Hyphenation: sal‧tire
Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
[edit]saltire (plural saltires)
- (heraldry) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.
- The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland.
- 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16 – 12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2016:
- But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
- 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness?”, in The Guardian[2], London, archived from the original on 18 April 2016:
- It was early August. In the Borders, there were few signs yet of a campaign that could take Scotland out of the United Kingdom. A large Y-E-S hung in separate letters from a tree on the road from Coldstream to Kelso. There wasn't a N-O to match it, but Kelso town hall flew both the saltire and the union jack.
- The Saint Patrick's Cross, the pre 1922 flag of Ireland.
Synonyms
[edit]- (heraldry): crux decussata
- (flag of Scotland): Saint Andrew's cross
Translations
[edit]ordinary in the shape of a cross
|
Saint Andrew's cross — see Saint Andrew's cross
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]saltire f (plural saltiri)
- Alternative form of psaltire
Declension
[edit]Declension of saltire
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) saltire | saltirea | (niște) saltiri | saltirile |
genitive/dative | (unei) saltiri | saltirii | (unor) saltiri | saltirilor |
vocative | saltire, saltireo | saltirilor |
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Heraldic charges
- English terms with quotations
- en:Crosses
- en:Flags
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns