dardus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *darōþu (throwing spear, arrow).

Pronunciation

Noun

dardus m (genitive dardī); second declension[1][2][3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) spear

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dardus dardī
genitive dardī dardōrum
dative dardō dardīs
accusative dardum dardōs
ablative dardō dardīs
vocative darde dardī

Descendants

  • Old French: dart, dard, dar
    • Middle French: dart, dard, dar
      • French: dard
        • Italian: dardo
        • Portuguese: dardo
        • Spanish: dardo
    • Walloon: darde
    • Middle English: dart, darte
  • Asturian: dardu
  • Old Occitan: dard
  • Catalan: dard
  • Occitan: dard

References

  1. ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “dardus”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 278
  2. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dardus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301
  3. ^ "dardus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)