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Old French
Etymology
Of disputed origin. According to Barnhart, Watkins, and others, derived from Frankish *standhard (“stable, fixed”, adjective, literally “standing firm”), from Frankish *standan (“to stand”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, firm”).[1][2] OED dismisses this as folk etymology and instead derives the term from Old French estendre (“to stretch, extend, spread”).[3] The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales also supports the Germanic origin above.
Pronunciation
Noun
estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)
- (military) standard
Descendants
References
- ^ “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.