glaive

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɡleɪv/    美 /ɡleɪv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. historical,obsolete
    — The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm.
  2. A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. historical
    — The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. [...] In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.
  3. A sword, particularly a broadsword. archaic,broadly,poetic
    — [T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.

词形变化

glaives plural glave alternative gleave alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
glaived Welsh glaive
相关词
gladius

词源

From Middle English gleyve (“lance, glaive”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”), from Late Latin glavus. The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that glavus reflects Latin gladius (“sword”) crossed with clāva (“club”); another is that it derives from a re-crossing of gladius with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”); yet another is that it is a borrowing into Late Latin from Old Irish claideb. All of the aforementioned words derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that none of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”).
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