estandart

Old French

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /estanˈdaɾt/

Noun

estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)

  1. (military) standard

Descendants

  • → Catalan: estendard
  • → English: standard
  • Middle French: estendard
  • → German: Standarte
  • → Italian: stendardo
  • → Portuguese: estandarte
  • → Sicilian: stinnardu
  • → Spanish: estandarte

References

  1. ^ “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
  3. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Estandart”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
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