dardus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *darōþu (“throwing spear, arrow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdar.dus/, [ˈd̪ärd̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdar.dus/, [ˈd̪ärd̪us]
Noun
dardus m (genitive dardī); second declension[1][2][3]
- (Medieval Latin) spear
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dardus | dardī |
| Genitive | dardī | dardōrum |
| Dative | dardō | dardīs |
| Accusative | dardum | dardōs |
| Ablative | dardō | dardīs |
| Vocative | darde | dardī |
Descendants
- Old French: dart, dard, dar
- Middle French: dart, dard, dar
- French: dard
- → Italian: dardo
- → Portuguese: dardo
- → Spanish: dardo
- French: dard
- Walloon: darde
- → Middle English: dart, darte
- English: dart
- → Dutch: dart
- → German: Dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
- English: dart
- Middle French: dart, dard, dar
- Asturian: dardu
- Old Occitan: dard
- Catalan: dard
- Occitan: dard
References
- Blaise, Albert (1975), “dardus”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (in Latin, 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)