gladius

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Roman sword roughly two feet long. historical
    — Finally, the Romans made the gladius—sharp, of highly-tempered steel, and strongly piercing—the first real sword (Figs. 17, 18, 19), of which only five specimens are now known to exist.
  2. A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.
    — From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.

词形变化

gladiuses plural gladii plural

词源

From Latin gladius (“Roman short sword, gladius”). Doublet of glaive.
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