ensis

== English == === Noun === ensis plural of ensi === Anagrams === I-ness, sines, Nisse, sensi, SINEs, snies, Neiss, seins, Sensi, siens == Latin == === Etymology === Perhaps from Proto-Italic *ensis (“sword”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ensi- (“sword, large knife”) However, according to De Vaan, all alleged Indo-European cognates are uncertain: Ancient Greek ἄορ (áor, “(hanger for a) sword”), Sanskrit असि (así, “sword”), Palaic 𒄩𒅆𒄿𒊏 (ḫa-ši-i-ra /⁠hasīra⁠/, “dagger”). Regardless, the EIEC—which reconstructs the PIE form as *h2/3ṇsis—still argues that the form likely date back to Proto-Indo-European. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈẽː.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛn.sis] === Noun === ēnsis m (genitive ēnsis); third declension (chiefly poetic) sword, brand Synonym: gladius Synonym: framea (figuratively) war lātēque vagātur ēnsis ― and far and wide the sword wanders (figuratively) defender Mārcellō Rōmānōrum ēnsī ― to Marcellus, the Romans’ sword (figuratively) royal sway (metonymic) the constellation Orion ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ēnsifer ēnsiculus ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Ensis ==== References ==== “ensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ensis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ensis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ensis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ensis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ēnsis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 190 Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171 Pokorny, Julius (1959), “ṇsi-s”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 771 Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*h2/3ṇsis”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 561