scythe

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
2. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
3. The tenth Lenormand card.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To use a scythe.
2. (transitive) To cut with a scythe.
3. (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, often) To attack or injure as if cutting.

Concetti

falce

falciare

falcetto

mietere

falce fienaia

frullana

sinonimi

sickle

mow

reap

cut

harvest

shears

small

suitability

sword

trim

billhook

cut grass

war scythe

instrument for mowing

crop

bush hook

cut down

glean

lea

shear

Traduzioni

faux

Sense

guadaña

zeis

foice

falx

gadanha

faucille

hoz

faucher

δρεπάνι

guadañar

Sichel

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsaɪð/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: sythe

Ereditato da inglese antico: sīþe

Affine Middle Low German: sēgede

Affine olandese: zicht

Affine islandese: sigð

Affine olandese: zeis

Affine tedesco: Sense

In summary

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.