cutlass
pronunciation
How to pronounce cutlass in British English:
UK [ˈkʌtləs]
How to pronounce cutlass in American English:
US [ˈkʌtləs]
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- Noun:
- a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
Word Origin
- cutlass
- cutlass: [16] Appropriate as the name sounds, cutlass has no etymological connection with cut. It comes from Old French cutelas, a derivative (denoting large size) of coutel ‘knife’. This in turn goes back to Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘knife, ploughshare’ (source of English coulter [OE] and cutler [14], whence cutlery [14]).=> coulter, cutlery
- cutlass (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle French coutelas (16c.), probably from Italian coltellaccio "large knife" (with augmentative suffix -accio), from coltello "knife," from Latin cultellus "small knife," diminutive of culter "knife, plowshare," from PIE *kel-tro-, from root *(s)kel- "to cut" (see scale (n.1)).
Example
- 1. The leader already had his cutlass in his hand .
- 2. My last car was an 89 cutlass supreme .
- 3. Bring me my sabre and my cutlass !
- 4. Let me just find my silver cutlass , and fill my stomach !
- 5. I ended up buying a 1995 cutlass supreme so far I like it .