general

fro-noun

general oblique singular, m (oblique plural generaus or generax or generals, nominative singular generaus or generax or generals, nominative plural general)

general oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
generaus (oblique plural)
generax (oblique plural)
generals (oblique plural)
generaus (nominative singular)
generax (nominative singular)
generals (nominative singular)
general (nominative plural)


dart

dart oblique singular, m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)

dart oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
darz (oblique plural)
dartz (oblique plural)
darz (nominative singular)
dartz (nominative singular)
dart (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: dart, dard, dar
French: dard
→ Italian: dardo
→ Portuguese: dardo
→ Spanish: dardo

Walloon: darde

→ Middle English: dart, darte
English: dart
→ Dutch: dart
→ German: Dart
Scots: dart, dairt; dard


front

fro-noun

front oblique singular, m (oblique plural fronz or frontz, nominative singular fronz or frontz, nominative plural front)

front oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fronz (oblique plural)
frontz (oblique plural)
fronz (nominative singular)
frontz (nominative singular)
front (nominative plural)

French: front m (see there for further descendants)

Norman: front m

→ Dutch: front

desctree

→ Middle English: frount, ffront, ffrount, front, fronte, frounte, frountte, frownt, frownte, frunt, frunte
English: front (see there for further descendants)
Scots: front


mace

fro-noun

mace oblique singular, f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

mace oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
maces (oblique plural)
mace (nominative singular)
maces (nominative plural)

French: masse

desctree

→ Middle English: mace, maas, masse, mase, maiis
English: mace
Scots: mace

From Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, itself probably derived from Latin mateola (“hoe”).


glaive

fro-noun

glaive oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural glaives, nominative singular glaives, nominative plural glaive)

glaive oblique singular or (canonical feminine masculine)
glaives (oblique plural)
glaives (nominative singular)
glaive (nominative plural)

French: glaive

→ Middle Dutch: glavie, glaye

→ Old Norse: glefia

→ Middle Low German: glave

→ Old Swedish: glaven

Swedish: glav

→ Old Danish: glawen

Danish: glavind

desctree

→ Middle English: gleyve, cleyve, glaive, glayfe, glayffe, glayve, gleve, gleywe, glyve
English: glaive
Scots: glaive

→ Middle High German: gleve

→ Old Catalan: glavi

From Late Latin glavus, representing a hybrid of gladius and clāva (“club”). Alternatively, from an original *glede (from Latin gladius) with influence from Gaulish gladebo (“sword”). Both terms are ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”). Alternatively, the d in *glede that had come to be pronounced as /ð/ in Old French may have been fronted to /v/ (perhaps influenced by the Gaulish word). Gender was variable in the oldest texts.

Son glaive i a li Dus lessié


lance

fro-noun

lance oblique singular, f (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)

lance oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
lances (oblique plural)
lance (nominative singular)
lances (nominative plural)

Middle French: lance

French: lance

→ Middle English: launce

English: lance

→ Middle High German: lanze

German: Lanze


hache

hache oblique singular, f (oblique plural haches, nominative singular hache, nominative plural haches)

hache oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
haches (oblique plural)
hache (nominative singular)
haches (nominative plural)

Middle French: hache

French: hache

Champenois: haiche

→ Iberia:

Asturian: hacha, hachu

Old Catalan: atxa

Old Galician-Portuguese: acha

Portuguese: acha

Old Spanish: facha

Spanish: hacha

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: facha

Galician: facha

→ Italy:

Calabrian: haccia

Italian: azza

→ Middle English: hache

From Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kop- (“to strike, beat”).


baston

fro-noun

baston oblique singular, m (oblique plural bastons, nominative singular bastons, nominative plural baston)

baston oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bastons (oblique plural)
bastons (nominative singular)
baston (nominative plural)

French: bâton

desctree

→ Middle English: baston, bastun, bastune
English: baston
Scots: baston


peon

fro-noun

peon oblique singular, m (oblique plural peons, nominative singular peons, nominative plural peon)

peon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
peons (oblique plural)
peons (nominative singular)
peon (nominative plural)

desctree

French: pion
→ Dutch: pion
Afrikaans: pion
→ Indonesian: pion
→ Greek: πιόνι (pióni)
→ Polish: pion
→ Romanian: pion
→ Turkish: piyon

→ Middle English: pown, powne, poun, poune, pon, pawn, pawne, paun, pewne
English: pawn
Scots: poun

Inherited from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”).

inh+

(military) infantryman

(chess) pawn


bataille

fro-noun

bataille oblique singular, f (oblique plural batailles, nominative singular bataille, nominative plural batailles)

bataille oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
batailles (oblique plural)
bataille (nominative singular)
batailles (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: bataille
French: bataille

Norman: bataille, batâle

Walloon: batreye

→ Asturian: batalla

→ Middle English: batayle, batel, bataylle, bataille, bataile, bataill, batail, batell, batayll, bateil, baitale
English: battle
Scots: battle

desc

→ Old Spanish: batalla (or from Old Occitan)

Ladino: batalya

Spanish: batalla

From Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.


mache

fro-noun

mache oblique singular, f (oblique plural maches, nominative singular mache, nominative plural maches)

mache oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
maches (oblique plural)
mache (nominative singular)
maches (nominative plural)


faucon

faucon oblique singular, m (oblique plural faucons, nominative singular faucons, nominative plural faucon)

faucon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
faucons (oblique plural)
faucons (nominative singular)
faucon (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: faulcon, faucon, falcon
French: faucon

desc

→ Middle English: faucoun, falcon, faucon, faukon

English: falcon

→ Irish: fabhcún


fauchon

fro-noun

fauchon oblique singular, m (oblique plural fauchons, nominative singular fauchons, nominative plural fauchon)

fauchon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fauchons (oblique plural)
fauchons (nominative singular)
fauchon (nominative plural)


javelot

javelot oblique singular, m (oblique plural javeloz or javelotz, nominative singular javeloz or javelotz, nominative plural javelot)

javelot oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
javeloz (oblique plural)
javelotz (oblique plural)
javeloz (nominative singular)
javelotz (nominative singular)
javelot (nominative plural)

French: javelot, javeline

From Vulgar Latin *gabalottus (“spear”), from Gaulish *gabalos (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gabalos (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰabʰlos (“fork, branch of tree”).


amiral

fro-noun

amiral oblique singular, m (oblique plural amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative singular amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative plural amiral)

amiral oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
amiraus (oblique plural)
amirax (oblique plural)
amirals (oblique plural)
amiraus (nominative singular)
amirax (nominative singular)
amirals (nominative singular)
amiral (nominative plural)

desctree

French: amiral
→ Ottoman Turkish: آمیرال
Turkish: amiral
→ Romanian: amiral
→ Swedish: amiral
→ Finnish: amiraali

→ Irish: aimiréal

→ Middle English: amiral
English: amiral

Middle Dutch: ammirael

Dutch: admiraal
Afrikaans: admiraal
→ Indonesian: admiral
→ Papiamentu: atmiral
→ West Frisian: admiraal

From Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).


darde

fro-noun

darde oblique singular, f (oblique plural dardes, nominative singular darde, nominative plural dardes)

darde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
dardes (oblique plural)
darde (nominative singular)
dardes (nominative plural)


espee

espee oblique singular, f (oblique plural espees, nominative singular espee, nominative plural espees)

espee oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
espees (oblique plural)
espee (nominative singular)
espees (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: espee
French: épée
→ English: epee

Inherited from Latin spatha, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

Cler en riant l’ad dit a Guenelun :
« Tenez m’espee, meillur n’en at nuls hom[. »]

c. 1150, Author unknown, La Chanson de Roland:

Clearly laughing, he [the king] said to Guenelun
"Take hold of my sword, no man has better".


rereguarde

fro-noun

rereguarde oblique singular, f (oblique plural rereguardes, nominative singular rereguarde, nominative plural rereguardes)

rereguarde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
rereguardes (oblique plural)
rereguarde (nominative singular)
rereguardes (nominative plural)

→ English: rearguard


cumpaigne

cumpaigne oblique singular, f (oblique plural cumpaignes, nominative singular cumpaigne, nominative plural cumpaignes)

cumpaigne oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
cumpaignes (oblique plural)
cumpaigne (nominative singular)
cumpaignes (nominative plural)

→ English: campaign

French: campagne


estandart

estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)

estandart oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
estandarz (oblique plural)
estandartz (oblique plural)
estandarz (nominative singular)
estandartz (nominative singular)
estandart (nominative plural)

→ Catalan: estendard

→ English: standard

Middle French: estendard

French: étendard

→ Italian: stendardo

→ Romanian: stindard

→ Portuguese: estandarte

→ Sicilian: stinnardu

→ Spanish: estandarte

Of disputed origin. According to Barnhart, Watkins, and others, derived from Frankish *standhard (“stable, fixed”, adjective, literally “standing firm”), from Frankish *standan (“to stand”) + *hard(ī) (“hard, firm”). OED dismisses this as folk etymology and instead derives the term from Old French estendre (“to stretch, extend, spread”). The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales also supports the Germanic origin above.

unc

disputed


buisine

fro-noun

buisine oblique singular, f (oblique plural buisines, nominative singular buisine, nominative plural buisines)

buisine oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
buisines (oblique plural)
buisine (nominative singular)
buisines (nominative plural)

French: buisine, buccine, buse

→ English: buisine

→ Dutch: bazuin

→ Middle High German: busūne, busīne

desctree

German: Posaune
→ English: posaune
→ Kashubian: bazuna
→ Polish: puzon
→ Slovincian: bazúna

From Latin būcina, with a change to stress on the last syllable (influenced by the suffix -īnus).


armeure

fro-noun

armeure oblique singular, f (oblique plural armeures, nominative singular armeure, nominative plural armeures)

armeure oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
armeures (oblique plural)
armeure (nominative singular)
armeures (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: armure, armeure
French: armure
→ English: armure
→ Romanian: armură

→ Middle English: armure, aarmer, armeure, armor, armore, armour, armur, armwr
English: armor, armour, armure
Scots: armour

armor (protective clothing worn for battle)


foulc

fro-noun

foulc oblique singular, m (oblique plural fouls, nominative singular fouls, nominative plural foulc)

foulc oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fouls (oblique plural)
fouls (nominative singular)
foulc (nominative plural)

Middle French: foule

French: foule

Norman: foule (Jersey)

Picard: foûle, foule

Walloon: flouhe

From Frankish *fulc, *folc (“people, crowd, multitude, troop”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“people collectively, multitude; host of warriors”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people, nation”). More at folk, full.


navie

fro-noun

navie oblique singular, f (oblique plural navies, nominative singular navie, nominative plural navies)

navie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
navies (oblique plural)
navie (nominative singular)
navies (nominative plural)

English: navy (through Anglo-Norman)

From Latin nāvigia < nāvigium (whence a related masculine Old French navoi), from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”).

enemy de Valoys si avoit arraiez un grant armee de navie q’estoit devant nous en l’eawe de Zwyne


creue

creue oblique singular, f (oblique plural creues, nominative singular creue, nominative plural creues)

creue oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
creues (oblique plural)
creue (nominative singular)
creues (nominative plural)

Feminine past participle of creistre, croistre (“grow, increase”)


hanste

hanste oblique singular, f (oblique plural hanstes, nominative singular hanste, nominative plural hanstes)

hanste oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
hanstes (oblique plural)
hanste (nominative singular)
hanstes (nominative plural)


gunfanun

gunfanun oblique singular, m (oblique plural gunfanuns, nominative singular gunfanuns, nominative plural gunfanun)

gunfanun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
gunfanuns (oblique plural)
gunfanuns (nominative singular)
gunfanun (nominative plural)

Germanic, from Frankish *gunþifanō, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.


bronie

bronie oblique singular, f (oblique plural bronies, nominative singular bronie, nominative plural bronies)

bronie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
bronies (oblique plural)
bronie (nominative singular)
bronies (nominative plural)

French: broigne


cunestable

cunestable oblique singular, m (oblique plural cunestables, nominative singular cunestables, nominative plural cunestable)

cunestable oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cunestables (oblique plural)
cunestables (nominative singular)
cunestable (nominative plural)

(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of conestable


conestable

conestable oblique singular, m (oblique plural conestables, nominative singular conestables, nominative plural conestable)

conestable oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
conestables (oblique plural)
conestables (nominative singular)
conestable (nominative plural)

→ Armenian: գունդստաբլ (gundstabl)

desctree

→ Middle English: constable, conestable, connestabil, connestable, constabil, cunstable, cunestable (Early Middle English)
English: constable
Scots: constable

French: connétable
→ Dutch: connétable
→ English: connétable (learned)

desc

κοντόσταβλος

→ Byzantine Greek: κοντόσταβλος (kontóstablos)

κοντόσταβλος

Greek: κοντόσταβλος (kontóstavlos)

→ Irish: constábla

→ Italian: conestabile

Norman: counnétablle, connêtabl'ye

→ Portuguese: condestável

Univerbation of Late Latin comes stabulī.


cuiracer

fro-noun

cuiracer oblique singular, m (oblique plural cuiracers, nominative singular cuiracers, nominative plural cuiracer)

cuiracer oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cuiracers (oblique plural)
cuiracers (nominative singular)
cuiracer (nominative plural)

French: cuirassier

English: cuirassier

cuirace + -er (agent noun suffix, variant of -ier).

cuirassier; solderied armed with a cuirass


javelline

javelline oblique singular, f (oblique plural javellines, nominative singular javelline, nominative plural javellines)

javelline oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
javellines (oblique plural)
javelline (nominative singular)
javellines (nominative plural)

→ English: javelin

desctree

Middle French: javeline
French: javeline
→ Catalan: javelina

From javelot with substitution of suffix.

a type of long, thin, spear used as a weapon


reboter

reboter (infinitive)
avoir reboté (infinitive multiword-construction)
en rebotant (gerund)
gerund of avoir + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
rebotant (participle present)
reboté (participle past)
rebot (first-person indicative present singular)
rebotes (indicative present second-person singular)
rebote (indicative present singular third-person)
rebotons (first-person indicative plural present)
rebotez (indicative plural present second-person)
rebotent (indicative plural present third-person)
rebotoie (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
reboteie (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rebotoe (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
reboteve (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rebotoies (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
reboteies (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
rebotoes (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
reboteves (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
rebotoit (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
reboteit (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
rebotot (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
reboteve (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
rebotiiens (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
rebotiens (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
rebotiiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
rebotiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
rebotoient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
reboteient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rebotoent (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rebotevent (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rebotai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
rebotas (indicative preterite second-person singular)
rebota (indicative preterite singular third-person)
rebotames (first-person indicative plural preterite)
rebotastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
reboterent (indicative plural preterite third-person)
reboterai (first-person future indicative singular)
reboteras (future indicative second-person singular)
rebotera (future indicative singular third-person)
reboterons (first-person future indicative plural)
reboteroiz (future indicative plural second-person)
rebotereiz (future indicative plural second-person)
reboterez (future indicative plural second-person)
reboteront (future indicative plural third-person)
reboteroie (conditional first-person singular)
rebotereie (conditional first-person singular)
reboteroies (conditional second-person singular)
rebotereies (conditional second-person singular)
reboteroit (conditional singular third-person)
rebotereit (conditional singular third-person)
reboteriiens (conditional first-person plural)
reboteriens (conditional first-person plural)
reboteriiez (conditional plural second-person)
reboteriez (conditional plural second-person)
reboteroient (conditional plural third-person)
rebotereient (conditional plural third-person)
future tense of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
rebot (first-person present singular subjunctive)
reboz (present second-person singular subjunctive)
rebot (present singular subjunctive third-person)
rebotons (first-person plural present subjunctive)
rebotez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
rebotent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
rebotasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
rebotasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
rebotast (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
rebotissons (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rebotissiens (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rebotissoiz (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rebotissez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rebotissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rebotassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
rebote (imperative second-person singular)
rebotons (first-person imperative plural)
rebotez (imperative plural second-person)

→ English: rebut


angarde

fro-noun

angarde oblique singular, f (oblique plural angardes, nominative singular angarde, nominative plural angardes)

angarde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
angardes (oblique plural)
angarde (nominative singular)
angardes (nominative plural)


ventaille

ventaille oblique singular, f (oblique plural ventailles, nominative singular ventaille, nominative plural ventailles)

ventaille oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
ventailles (oblique plural)
ventaille (nominative singular)
ventailles (nominative plural)

→ English: ventail

French: vantail, ventail


anelaz

anelaz oblique singular, m (oblique plural anelaz, nominative singular anelaz, nominative plural anelaz)

anelaz oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
anelaz (oblique plural)
anelaz (nominative singular)
anelaz (nominative plural)


fauchun

fauchun oblique singular, m (oblique plural fauchuns, nominative singular fauchuns, nominative plural fauchun)

fauchun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fauchuns (oblique plural)
fauchuns (nominative singular)
fauchun (nominative plural)


fauchoun

fauchoun oblique singular, m (oblique plural fauchouns, nominative singular fauchouns, nominative plural fauchoun)

fauchoun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fauchouns (oblique plural)
fauchouns (nominative singular)
fauchoun (nominative plural)


avauntgarde

avauntgarde oblique singular, f (oblique plural avauntgardes, nominative singular avauntgarde, nominative plural avauntgardes)

avauntgarde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
avauntgardes (oblique plural)
avauntgarde (nominative singular)
avauntgardes (nominative plural)


flaiel

flaiel oblique singular, m (oblique plural flaieaus or flaieax or flaiiaus or flaiiax or flaiels, nominative singular flaieaus or flaieax or flaiiaus or flaiiax or flaiels, nominative plural flaiel)

flaiel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
flaieaus (oblique plural)
flaieax (oblique plural)
flaiiaus (oblique plural)
flaiiax (oblique plural)
flaiels (oblique plural)
flaieaus (nominative singular)
flaieax (nominative singular)
flaiiaus (nominative singular)
flaiiax (nominative singular)
flaiels (nominative singular)
flaiel (nominative plural)

French: fléau

⇒ Old French: fraiel, frael

desctree

→ Middle English: frayel, ffrele, frael, fraiel, frale, freyel, frayle
English: frail
Scots: frail


comandeor

fro-noun

comandeor oblique singular, m (oblique plural comandeors, nominative singular comandere, nominative plural comandeor)

comandeor oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
comandeors (oblique plural)
comandere (nominative singular)
comandeor (nominative plural)

→ Middle English: comaundour

English: commander

Middle French: commandeur

French: commandeur


amiralté

amiralté oblique singular, ? (oblique plural amiraltez, nominative singular amiralté, nominative plural amiraltez)

amiralté oblique singular (canonical)
amiraltez (oblique plural)
amiralté (nominative singular)
amiraltez (nominative plural)

from Late Latin admīrālitās. See admiral. Also amiral + -té.


rumparie

rumparie oblique singular, f (oblique plural rumparies, nominative singular rumparie, nominative plural rumparies)

rumparie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
rumparies (oblique plural)
rumparie (nominative singular)
rumparies (nominative plural)

(Anglo-Norman, military law) Alternative form of rumperie


rumpperie

rumpperie oblique singular, f (oblique plural rumpperies, nominative singular rumpperie, nominative plural rumpperies)

rumpperie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
rumpperies (oblique plural)
rumpperie (nominative singular)
rumpperies (nominative plural)


romperie

romperie oblique singular, f (oblique plural romperies, nominative singular romperie, nominative plural romperies)

romperie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
romperies (oblique plural)
romperie (nominative singular)
romperies (nominative plural)


rumperie

rumperie oblique singular, f (oblique plural rumperies, nominative singular rumperie, nominative plural rumperies)

rumperie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
rumperies (oblique plural)
rumperie (nominative singular)
rumperies (nominative plural)

(Anglo-Norman, military law) the breach of a truce