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Glavo Estas Sword Bela Mia Accusative Plural Null

The word "glavo" means sword and is borrowed from the French "glaive". Proverbs and examples illustrate its use as a weapon.

La vorto "glavo" signifas glavon kaj estas pruntita el la franca "glaive". Proverboj kaj ekzemploj montras ĝian uzon kiel armilon.

Frequency Rank of Word 1843
Word glavo
Meanings
    sword
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sword

    1910,

    L. L. Zamenhof
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
    ,
    Proverbaro Esperanta
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Proverbaro_Esperanta

    Evangelio laŭ Mateo
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Evangelio_la%C5%AD_Mateo
    , 26-52
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
glaive
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glaive#French
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )    : /ˈɡlavo/
  • Hyphenation: gla‧vo
  • Rhymes:
    -avo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/avo

Noun

glavo (accusative singular

glavon
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glavon#Esperanto
, plural
glavoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glavoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
glavojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glavojn#Esperanto
)

  1. sword
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sword
    • 1910,
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      ,
      Proverbaro Esperanta
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Proverbaro_Esperanta
      La lango de virino estas ŝia glavo.
      A woman's tongue is her sword.
    • Evangelio laŭ Mateo
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Evangelio_la%C5%AD_Mateo
      , 26-52
      Kiu glavon prenas, per glavo pereos.
      Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Derived terms

  • glavingo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glavingo#Esperanto
     (“scabbard”)
  • glavego
     (“greatsword”)

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