estandart

Old French edit

Etymology edit

Of Germanic origin. According to Barnhart and Watkins, from Frankish *standahard (“stand hard”), from Proto-Germanic *standaną + *harduz.^[1]^[2] OED dismisses this as folk etymology and instead derives the term from estendre (“to stretch out”).^[3]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /estanˈdaɾt/

Noun edit

estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)

(military) standard

Descendants edit

→ Catalan: estendard
→ English: standard
Middle French: estendard
- French: étendard
→ Italian: stendardo
→ Portuguese: estandarte
→ Sicilian: stinnardu
→ Spanish: estandarte

References edit

^ “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

[1] “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[2] Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.

[3] Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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