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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *darōþu (“throwing spear, arrow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dardus m (genitive dardī); second declension[1][2][3]
- (Medieval Latin) spear
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “dardus”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 278
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dardus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301
- ^ dardus 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)