English
estramacon
Estramacon comes from French estramaçon ‘(a type of) broadsword’, from Italian stramazzone ‘slump, collapse, heavy fall’, and ultimately from Vulgar Latin *mattea ‘a dainty dish, a delicacy’.
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*mattea‘a dainty dish, a delicacy’reconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentmazza‘baton’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstramazzare‘to collapse, to crash or fall heavily’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstramazzone‘slump, collapse, heavy fall’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentestramaçon‘(a type of) broadsword’
- Englishearliest quotation 1822estramacon
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*mattea‘a dainty dish, a delicacy’reconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentmazza‘baton’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstramazzare‘to collapse, to crash or fall heavily’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstramazzone‘slump, collapse, heavy fall’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentestramaçon‘(a type of) broadsword’
- Englishearliest quotation 1822estramacon
Earliest quotation: 1822, Walter Scott, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst: “I tripped a hasty morrice[…]upon the dining table, now…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *met- ‘to cut (by measure’
through Vulgar Latin *mattea ‘a dainty dish, a delicacy’
Today it means
noun A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Vulgar Latin *mattea / estramacon