martel
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English martel, from Old French martel (modern French marteau), from Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, a variant of marculus (“small hammer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
martel (plural martels)
- A hammer, especially a war hammer.
Synonyms edit
- (medieval hammer-like weapon): pole hammer, war hammer
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Verb edit
martel (third-person singular simple present martels, present participle martelling, simple past and past participle martelled)
- (obsolete) To strike a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest,
Which on his helmet martelled so hard
That made him low incline his lofty crest,
And bowd his battred visour to his brest
See also edit
- Martel (surname)
Anagrams edit
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martel
- inflection of martelen:
French edit
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Noun edit
martel m (plural martels)
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Further reading edit
- “martel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Maltese edit
Root |
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m-r-t-l |
1 term |
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Verb edit
martel (imperfect jmartel, verbal noun tmartil)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of martel | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | martilt | martilt | martel | martilna | martiltu | martlu | |
f | martlet | |||||||
imperfect | m | mmartel | tmartel | jmartel | mmartlu | tmartlu | jmartlu | |
f | tmartel | |||||||
imperative | martel | martlu |
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Norman edit
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Noun edit
martel m (plural martels)
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Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, variant of Latin marculus.
Noun edit
martel oblique singular, m (oblique plural marteaus or marteax or martiaus or martiax or martels, nominative singular marteaus or marteax or martiaus or martiax or martels, nominative plural martel)
- hammer (tool)