glavus

Latin

Etymology

From a crossing of Latin gladius (“sword”) and either clāva (“club”) or Proto-Celtic *kladiwos, although von Wartburg finds the latter possibility unlikely. Attested between the third and the sixth centuries CE.

Pronunciation

(Proto-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaβu/

Noun

glā̆vus m (genitive glā̆vī); second declension (Late Latin)

a sort of weapon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glā̆vus	glā̆vī
Genitive	glā̆vī	glā̆vōrum
Dative	glā̆vō	glā̆vīs
Accusative	glā̆vum	glā̆vōs
Ablative	glā̆vō	glā̆vīs
Vocative	glā̆ve	glā̆vī

Descendants

Old French: glaive
- French: glaive
- → Middle Dutch: glavie, glaye
  - → Old Norse: glefia
    - Old Swedish: glaven
      - Swedish: glav
- → Middle English: gleyve, cleyve, glaive, glayfe, glayffe, glayve, gleve, gleywe, glyve
  - English: glaive
  - Scots: glaive
- → Middle High German: gleve
- → Old Catalan: glavi
Old Occitan: glavi

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gladius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 145