espasa

Inherited from Old Catalan (which also had a variant espaa), from Latin spatha (“sword”) (compare Occitan espasa, Spanish espada, French épée), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈpa.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈpa.za]

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espasa f (plural espases)

1. sword
2. epee
3. (card games, in the plural) swords; a suit in the Spanish deck of cards
4. (card games) a card of this suit

• espasa llarga
• peix espasa

• “espasa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “espasa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Old Occitan espaza, espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Attested from the 12th century.^[1]

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espasa f (plural espasas)

1. sword

   Synonym: espada