Noun: poignard
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | poignard |
| Plural m | poignards |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like poignard
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration of Old French poignal, poignel, from Vulgar Latin *pugnāle(m), from Latin pugnus (“fist”) (whence French poing), in the manner of manuālis. Compare Spanish puñal; Portuguese and Occitan punhal; Catalan punyal; Italian pugnale. See: Latin Nouns '
pugnus', Spanish Nouns '
puñal', Catalan Nouns '
punyal', Italian Nouns '
pugnale'.
Verbs referencing "poignard"
Galician Nouns
puñal, Spanish Nouns
puñal, Italian Nouns
pugnale.
Translations