sarissa

English

Alternative forms

• sarisa

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).

Noun

sarissa (plural sarissas or sarissae)

1. (Ancient Greece) A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Related terms

• sarissophoros

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: sarissa
• French: sarisse (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σάρισσα f (sárissa)

• Italian: sarissa f
• Latin: sarissa f
• Polish: sarysa (pl) f
• Russian: са́рисса f (sárissa), са́риса f (sárisa)

Anagrams

• Sassari, sarisas

Finnish

Noun

sarissa

1. inessive singular of sari

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).

Noun

sarissa f (plural sarisse)

1. sarissa (a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation)

Anagrams

• Sassari, rasassi

Latin

Alternative forms

• sarisa

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa), alternative forms of σάρῑσα (sárīsa).

Noun

sarissa f (genitive sarissae); first declension

1. sarissa (a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sarissa	sarissae
Genitive	sarissae	sarissārum
Dative	sarissae	sarissīs
Accusative	sarissam	sarissās
Ablative	sarissā	sarissīs
Vocative	sarissa	sarissae

References

• sarissa 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)
• sarissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sarissa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sarissa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin