scrimer
English edit
Etymology edit
French escrimeur. See skirmish.
Noun edit
scrimer (plural scrimers)
- (archaic) A fencing master, fencer.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
- And for your rapier most especially,
That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,
If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,
He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
If you opposed them.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scrimer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Romanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French escrimeur, modelled after scrimă.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scrimer m (plural scrimeri, feminine equivalent scrimeră)
Declension edit
Declension of scrimer
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) scrimer | scrimerul | (niște) scrimeri | scrimerii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) scrimer | scrimerului | (unor) scrimeri | scrimerilor |
| vocative | scrimerule | scrimerilor | ||
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- scrimer in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)