sarissa
English
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).
Noun
sarissa (plural sarissas or sarissae)
- (Ancient Greece) A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.
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Noun
sarissa
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).
Noun
sarissa f (plural sarisse)
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa), alternative forms of σάρῑσα (sárīsa).
Noun
sarissa f (genitive sarissae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sarissa | sarissae |
| genitive | sarissae | sarissārum |
| dative | sarissae | sarissīs |
| accusative | sarissam | sarissās |
| ablative | sarissā | sarissīs |
| vocative | sarissa | sarissae |
References
- "sarissa", 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)
- sarissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sarissa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sarissa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin