spatha

From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Doublet of spade, spathe, and epee.

spatha (plural spathas or spathae)

1. A type of straight sword originating from the 1st-century Roman Empire. It was worn typically by cavalry officers and is a long version of the left shaped gladius.

• spathe
• spade
• spatula

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• pashta, Thapas

< Latin

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɑthɑ/, [ˈs̠pɑ̝t̪hɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑthɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): spat‧ha

spatha

1. spatha (sword)
2. (botany) spathe (large bract that envelops a spadix)

• (spathe): puikelon suojuslehti

From Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.tʰa/, [ˈs̠pät̪ʰä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.ta/, [ˈspäːt̪ä]

spatha f (genitive spathae); first declension

1. spatula, spattle
2. spatha; a long, two-edged, straight sword, 75cm to 1m, typically carried by Roman cavalry officers
3. batten; broad piece of wood used in weaving to compress the woof threads
4. a spathe of a palm tree
5. a kind of tree

First-declension noun.

• (sword): ēnsis, gladius, mūcrō

• spathārius
• spatula, spathula
• spatulātus, spathulātus

• gladius

• “spatha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spatha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spatha 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)