šestoper
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editšȇst + pèro, calque of Russian шестопёр (šestopjór).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editšestòper m (Cyrillic spelling шесто̀пер)
- (historical, military) A six-flanged mace.
- 1843, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, “Put u Senj”, in Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska, number 9, number 46, page 182:
- U stara vrěmena, kako to Valvazor piše, bila je ista kapa kano i buzdohan ili šestoper znamenje plemenštine i junačtva.
- In old times, as Valvazor writes, that same cap, like the mace or six-flanger, was a symbol of nobility and heroism.
- 1920, Tin Ujević, Odlazak:
References
edit- “šestoper” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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