Spießrute

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spieß (“pike”) +‎ Rute (“rod”); attested from the 16th century onwards.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpiːsˌʁuːtə/
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  • Hyphenation: Spieß‧ru‧te

Noun

Spießrute f (genitive Spießrute, plural Spießruten)

  1. (military, historical) kind of prod used to punish lansquenets

Declension

Declension of Spießrute
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Spießrute die Spießruten
genitive einer der Spießrute der Spießruten
dative einer der Spießrute den Spießruten
accusative eine die Spießrute die Spießruten

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Danish: spidsrod
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: spissrot
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: spissrot
  • → Polish: szpicruta

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Spießrute”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “Spießrute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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