dolabra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

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

Noun

dolabra f (plural dolabre)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  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

Noun

dolābra f (genitive dolābrae); first declension

  1. pickaxe

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → 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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