scythe

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

foice

gadanha

ceifar

segar

fouce

segadeira

gadanho

gadanhar

alfange

foiçar

podadeira

roçar

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

faux

Sense

falce

guadaña

zeis

falx

falciare

guadañar

faucille

hoz

faucher

δρεπάνι

Sichel

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsaɪð/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: sythe

Herdado de inglês arcaico: sīþe

Cognato com Middle Low German: sēgede

Cognato com holandês: zicht

Cognato com islandês: sigð

Cognato com holandês: zeis

Cognato com alemão: 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.