Noun: spadassinicide
| Singular | spadassinicide |
| Plural | spadassinicides |
Sample Sentences
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Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill. [1921, Rafael Sabatini, “Chapter VI”, in Scaramouche, book III:]
Nouns inflected like spadassinicide
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From spadassin + -icide, from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”). See: Italian Nouns '
spadaccino'.