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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dolābra (pickaxe).

Noun

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dolabra (plural dolabrae)

  1. An ancient axe or hatchet.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin dolābra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /doˈla.bra/
  • Rhymes: -abra
  • Hyphenation: do‧là‧bra

Noun

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dolabra f (plural dolabre)

  1. dolabra
  2. (medicine, obsolete) a kind of bandaging where the bandages are wound around in a spiral-like fashion

Further reading

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  • dolabra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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1st-century Roman dolabra. Hill-fort of Besomaño, Galicia, Spain.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From dol(ā) (to hew) +‎ -bra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dolābra f (genitive dolābrae); first declension

  1. pickaxe

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolabra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • dolabra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolabra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin