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Definitions and meaning of glaive

glaive

Etymology

From Middle English gleyve (“lance, glaive”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”), from Late Latin glavus. The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that glavus reflects Latin gladius (“sword”) crossed with clāva (“club”); another is that it derives from a re-crossing of gladius with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”); yet another is that it is a borrowing into Late Latin from Old Irish claideb. All of the aforementioned words derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that none of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɡleɪv/, enPR: glāv
• Rhymes: -eɪv

Noun

glaive (plural glaives)

1. (obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
2. (historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.
3. (loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.

Derived terms

• glaived (adjective)
• Welsh glaive

Related terms

• gladius

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References

Further reading

• glaive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Veglia, vagile

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French glaive, from Late Latin glavus; see the entry for English glaive for further information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛv/

Noun

glaive m (plural glaives)

1. gladius, short sword
2. (figuratively) sword

Further reading

• “glaive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

glaive

1. Alternative form of gleyve

Old French

Alternative forms

• gladies (10th century)
• gleve
• gleyve

Etymology

From Late Latin glavus, representing a hybrid of gladius and clāva (“club”). Alternatively, from an original *glede (from Latin gladius) with influence from Gaulish gladebo (“sword”). Both terms are ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”). Alternatively, the d in *glede that had come to be pronounced as /ð/ in Old French may have been fronted to /v/ (perhaps influenced by the Gaulish word). Gender was variable in the oldest texts.

Noun

glaive oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural glaives, nominative singular glaives, nominative plural glaive)

1. lance
2. sword
3. massacre

Descendants

• French: glaive
• → Middle Dutch: glavie, glaye
  • → Old Norse: glefia
• → Middle Low German: glave
  • → Old Swedish: glaven
    • Swedish: glav
  • → Old Danish: glawen
    • Danish: glavind
• → Middle English: gleyve, cleyve, glaive, glayfe, glayffe, glayve, gleve, gleywe, glyve
  • English: glaive
  • Scots: glaive
• → Middle High German: gleve
• → Old Catalan: glavi

See also

• espee
• lance

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (glaive)
• glaive on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gladius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 145