spear

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (broadly, transitive) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (especially, obsolete, transitive) To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Male.
2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to male family members.

Concetti

lancia

asta

picca

infilzari

spiedo

alabarda

arpione

pungiglione

sbarra

arco

🙇

dardo

🎯

fiocina

giavellotto

freccia

germoglio

saetta

spada

sinonimi

lance

javelin

pierce

stab

pike

dart

🎯

harpoon

weapon

poke

prick

shaft

sting

shoot

inject

fizgig

thrust

leister

impale

bayonet

sew

gore

gig

arrow

fork

fish spear

nail

border upon

fishgig

spit

spear up

sword

touch

sprout

staff

war

halberd

puncture

punch

👊

spike

forge

bore

flag

boat hook

awl

fish-fork

bite

drill

knife

🔪

dismiss

beg

Traduzioni

lance

Speer

lanza

lança

speer

javelot

Lanze

llança

Spieß

lans

mızrak

javelina

λόγχη

hasta

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: spere

Ereditato da inglese antico: spere

Affine frisone occidentale: spear

Affine olandese: speer

Affine tedesco: Speer

Affine norse antico: spjǫr

Affine olandese medio: sparre

Affine norse antico: sparri

Affine latino: sparus

Affine albanese: ferrë

Ereditato da inglese medio: spyre

Ereditato da inglese antico: spīr

In summary

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).