sarissa

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).

Noun

sarissa (plural sarissas or sarissae)

  1. A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Anagrams


Finnish

Noun

sarissa

  1. inessive singular of sari

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).

Noun

sarissa f (plural sarisse)

  1. a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation

Anagrams


Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa), alternative forms of σάρῑσα (sárīsa).

Noun

sarissa f (genitive sarissae); first declension

  1. A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sarissa sarissae
Genitive sarissae sarissārum
Dative sarissae sarissīs
Accusative sarissam sarissās
Ablative sarissā sarissīs
Vocative sarissa sarissae

References

  • sarissa 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)
  • sarissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • sarissa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sarissa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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