estandart
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Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of Germanic origin. According to Barnhart and Watkins, from Frankish *standahard (“stand hard”), from Proto-Germanic *standaną + *harduz.[1][2] OED dismisses this as folk etymology and instead derives the term from estendre (“to stretch out”).[3]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
estandart oblique singular, m (oblique plural estandarz or estandartz, nominative singular estandarz or estandartz, nominative plural estandart)
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: estendard
- → English: standard
- Middle French: estendard
- French: étendard
- → Italian: stendardo
- → Portuguese: estandarte
- → Sicilian: stinnardu
- → Spanish: estandarte
References[edit]
- ^ “standard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.