# spatha
## English
### Etymology

From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Doublet of spade, spathe, and epee.

### Noun

spatha (plural spathas or spathae)
* A type of straight sword originating from the 1st-century Roman Empire. It was worn typically by cavalry officers and is a long version of the left shaped gladius.

#### Related terms

* spathe
* spade
* spatula

### References

http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-Attack.html

### Anagrams

* pashta, Thapas

## Finnish
### Etymology

< Latin

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɑthɑ/, [ˈs̠pɑ̝t̪hɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ɑthɑ
* Syllabification: spat‧ha

### Noun

spatha
* spatha (sword)
* (botany) spathe (large bract that envelops a spadix)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of spatha (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :

#### Synonyms

* (spathe): puikelon suojuslehti

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈspa.tʰa/, [ˈs̠pät̪ʰä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈspa.ta/, [ˈspäːt̪ä]

### Noun

spatha f (genitive spathae); first declension
* spatula, spattle
* spatha; a long, two-edged, straight sword, 75cm to 1m, typically carried by Roman cavalry officers
* batten; broad piece of wood used in weaving to compress the woof threads
* a spathe of a palm tree
* a kind of tree

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | spatha | spathae |
| Genitive | spathae | spathārum |
| Dative | spathae | spathīs |
| Accusative | spatham | spathās |
| Ablative | spathā | spathīs |
| Vocative | spatha | spathae |

#### Coordinate terms

* (sword): ēnsis, gladius, mūcrō

#### Derived terms

* spathārius
* spatula, spathula
* spatulātus, spathulātus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: spatã
** Istro-Romanian: spåte
** Megleno-Romanian: spată
** Romanian: spată, spate
* Dalmatian:
** sputa
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: spata, spada
*** → Polish: szpada, szpaga
**** → Russian: шпага (špaga)
** Neapolitan: spata
** Sicilian: spata
* North-Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: spâ
*** Piedmontese: spa
** Friulian: spade
** Istriot: spada
** Romansch: spada, speda
** Venetian: spada
*** → Serbo-Croatian: špȃda
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: èpèye, èpèya, èpèa, èpê
** Old French: espee, spede (9th century), espethe (early Anglo-Norman)
*** Middle French: espee
**** French: épée
***** → English: epee
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: espasa
** Old Occitan: espaza, espada
*** Occitan: espasa, espada
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: espada
** Mirandese: spada
** Old Galician-Portuguese: espada
*** Galician: espada
*** Portuguese: espada (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: espada
*** Spanish: espada
**** → Cebuano: espada
**** → Karao: ispada
**** → Tagalog: espada
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: ispada, spada
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Albanian: shpatë
** → Basque: ezpata
* Later borrowings:
** → English: spatha, spathe

### See also

* gladius

### References

* “spatha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “spatha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* spatha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)