English

Alternative forms

• sarisa

Noun

sarissa ‎(plural sarissas or sarissae)

1. a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Related terms

• sarissophoros

Anagrams

• Sassari

Finnish

Noun

sarissa

1. Inessive singular form of sari.

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάρισσα ‎(sárissa).

Noun

sarissa f ‎(plural sarisse)

1. a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Latin

Alternative forms

• sarisa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάρισσα ‎(sárissa).

Noun

sarissa f ‎(genitive sarissae); first declension

1. A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.

Inflection

First declension.

References

• SARISSA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sarissa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• sarissa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sarissa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin