sparthe
English
Noun
sparthe (plural sparthes)
- Alternative form of sparth (“battle-axe”).
Anagrams
Middle English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse sparða.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsparð(ə)/, /sparθ/
Noun
sparthe (plural sparthes)
- battle-axe
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- He hath a sparth of twenti pound of wight.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: sparth
References
- “sparth(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.