curtanas
Meaning of curtanas
- the unpointed sword carried in front of English sovereigns at their coronation to represent mercy.
Curtana is borne in the front rank of the regalia
Middle English: from Anglo-Latin curtana (spatha) ‘shortened (sword)’, from Old Frenchcortain, the name of the sword belonging to Roland (the point of which was damaged when it was thrust into a block of steel), from cort ‘short’, from Latin curtus ‘cut short’.
Information about curtanas
- It is a name.
- The singular form of curtanas is: curtana.
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Hyphenation of curtanas
cur-tanas
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- curtanas is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of curtanas
Words that rhyme with curtanas
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