Dagger

Noun

 * 1)   A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
 * , Act I, Scene I, line 282.
 * I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; ...
 * 1) * 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34.
 * The dagger, under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.
 * 1) A text character (†) that is used for footnotes, to signify death, and to express the mathematical application of Hermitian conjugacy.

Synonyms

 * : dirk, knife
 * : obelisk, obelus
 * barb

Derived terms

 * cloak-and-dagger
 * look daggers

Adjectives for Dagger
bloody; bronze; gold-hilted; curved; flint; short; heavy; gleaming; well-sharpened.

Verbs for Dagger
attack with —; blunt —; brandish —; conceal —; draw —; dull —; edge —; flourish—; hack with —; nuzzle —; pare with —; pluck with —; point —; reel under —; run— through; sharpen —; sheathe —; shoot—; speak —s; stab with —; threaten with—; thrust —; wave —; wield —; — inflicts; — nicks; —penetrates; — slays; — wounds.

Thesaurus
Calvary cross, Christogram, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, X, ankh, avellan cross, ax, bayonet, blade, bowie knife, chi, chi-rho, christcross, cold steel, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, cutlery, cutter, dirk, dudgeon, edge tools, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, impale, inverted cross, knife, lance, long cross, naked steel, papal cross, pectoral cross, pierce, pigsticker, plunge in, point, poniard, potent cross, puncturer, rood, run through, saber, saltire, sharpener, spear, spike, spit, stab, steel, stick, stiletto, swastika, sword, tau, toad sticker, transfix, transpierce, trefled cross, voided cross, whittle

Etymology
Related to dague (13th century), , ,   daga,  Degen, Old Norse daggardr, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac.

In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective dācus "Dacian". Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen)

The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (d. 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga (Du Cange; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word). OED points out that there is also an English verb dag "to stab" from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.

Translations

 * Basque: sastagai
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: daga
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (duǎnjiàn);  (bǐshǒu)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pistoda
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 短剣 (たんけん, tanken), 短刀 (たんとう, tanto)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌بان, خه‌نجه‌ر
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: duncis
 * Lithuanian: peilis
 * Macedonian:, кама
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: pumnal
 * Russian: стилет,
 * Scottish Gaelic: biodag, cuinnsear
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: bidog, bidogau


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jiànhào)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Kreuz, Totenkreuz
 * Greek:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: croce, daga, coniugazione hermitiana
 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian: semn de carte
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: križ, krst
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Greek: σφάχτης
 * Italian: arma bianca, coltello


 * Macedonian:
 * Swahili:


 * : daga
 * : 단검 (dangeom), 회검 (hoegeom)


 * : xencer, qeme, deban, kahûr
 * : durklas
 * : puñal, daga

Anagrams

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