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cuirass

Meaningbody armour

Common meaning: armour covering the torso

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SKAR or SKAL‘shear, cut, cleave, scratch, dig’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 406, p. 744 · scan
  2. Italiancorazza‘body armour’source
  3. Latinmeaning shiftsbody armour → hide or leathercorium‘hide or leather’source
  4. Frenchmeaning shiftshide or leather → breastplatecuirasse‘breastplate’source
  5. Englishmeaning shiftsbreastplate → armour covering the torsocuirass‘armour covering the torso’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Italian corazza ‘body armour’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry CUIRASS, p. 146 · dictionary scan

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