warda

See also: Warda

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

garda, guarda, wardia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Frankish *warda (“watch, watchpost, protection”). Alternatively a back-formation from wardō (“to herd cattle, ward against, guard”), itself from the same Germanic root.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ar.da/, [ˈu̯ärd̪ä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.da/, [ˈvärd̪ä]

Noun edit

warda f (genitive wardae); first declension^[1]^[2] (Middle Latin)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	warda	wardae
Genitive	wardae	wardārum
Dative	wardae	wardīs
Accusative	wardam	wardās
Ablative	wardā	wardīs
Vocative	warda	wardae

Descendants edit

Old French: garde, gard, guarde
- Middle French: garde, warde
  - French: garde
- Norman: garde (Jersey)
- → Middle English: garde, guarde, gard
  - English: guard
Old Northern French: warde
- → Middle English: warde, ward (partially from Old English weard)
  - English: ward
Italian: guardia
Spanish: garda

References edit

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1128
^ warda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Maltese edit

Root
w-r-d
5 terms

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈwar.da/

Noun edit

warda f (singulative, dual wardtajn or wardtejn, plural urad or uradi or urud or uradijiet, paucal wardiet)

singulative of ward

Papiamentu edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch wachten.

Verb edit

warda

to wait

[1] Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1128

[2] warda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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