flamberge
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French.
Noun
flamberge (plural flamberges)
- (weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.
- Synonym: flame-bladed sword
- 1884, Richard F Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, , →OCLC, page 137:
- The wavy, cutting surface appears in the ‘flamberge,’ to which flame gave a name: it is nowhere better developed than in the beautiful Malay kris (crease). The object seems to be that of increasing the cutting surface.
Translations
sword which had a wavy blade
Anagrams
French
Etymology
(1180) From Old French froberge ("name of a sword") changed to "flamberge" with influence of flambe from Germanic *frōberga composed of the elements *frô (“man”) and bergan (“to protect”) from Proto-Germanic *berganą from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care of, protect, preserve”)
Pronunciation
Noun
flamberge f (plural flamberges)
Further reading
- “flamberge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
- froberge in Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flamberge)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frōberga”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 181