dolabra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolābra (“pickaxe”).

Noun

dolabra (plural dolabrae)

  1. An ancient axe or hatchet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dolabra in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dolābra.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /doˈla.bra/
  • Rhymes: -abra
  • Hyphenation: do‧là‧bra

Noun

dolabra f (plural dolabre)

  1. dolabra
  2. (medicine, obsolete) a kind of bandaging where the bandages are wound around in a spiral-like fashion

Further reading
  • dolabra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin
1st-century Roman dolabra. Hill-fort of Besomaño, Galicia, Spain.

Alternative forms
  • dalabra (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From dol(ā) (“to hew”) +‎ -bra.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /doˈlaː.bra/, [d̪ɔˈɫ̪äːbrä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /doˈla.bra/, [d̪oˈläːbrä]

Noun

dolābra f (genitive dolābrae); first declension

  1. pickaxe

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dolābra dolābrae
Genitive dolābrae dolābrārum
Dative dolābrae dolābrīs
Accusative dolābram dolābrās
Ablative dolābrā dolābrīs
Vocative dolābra dolābrae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: dolabra
  • → Ancient Greek: δηλάβρα (dēlábra)
  • → Greek: δολάβρα (dolávra)
  • → Georgian: დალაბრა (dalabra)
  • → Old Armenian: դալապր (dalapr)

References
  • “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolabra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “dolabra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dolabra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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