gladius
noun/ˈɡlæd.i.əs/
Etymology
From Latin gladius (“Roman short sword, gladius”). Doublet of glaive.
Definitions
A Roman sword roughly two feet long.
- Finally, the Romans made the gladius—sharp, of highly-tempered steel, and strongly piercing—the first real sword (Figs. 17, 18, 19), of which only five specimens are now known to exist.
- The gladius was effective either for cutting or for thrusting and was used by legionaries and auxiliaries.
A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.
- From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gladius. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA