glavus

== Latin == === Etymology === From a crossing of Latin gladius (“sword”) and either clāva (“club”) or Proto-Celtic *kladiwos, although von Wartburg finds the latter possibility unlikely. Attested between the third and the sixth centuries CE. === Noun === glā̆vus m (genitive glā̆vī); second declension (Late Latin) a sort of weapon ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Old French: glaive (see there for further descendants) Old Occitan: glavi === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gladius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 145