dolabra

Borrowed from Latin dolābra (“pickaxe”).

dolabra (plural dolabrae)

1. An ancient axe or hatchet.

• “dolabra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin dolābra.

• IPA^(key): /doˈla.bra/
• Rhymes: -abra
• Hyphenation: do‧là‧bra

dolabra f (plural dolabre)

1. dolabra
2. (medicine, obsolete) a kind of bandaging where the bandages are wound around in a spiral-like fashion

• dolabra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• dalabra (Vulgar Latin)

From dol(ā) (“to hew”) +‎ -bra.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /doˈlaː.bra/, [d̪ɔˈɫ̪äːbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /doˈla.bra/, [d̪oˈläːbrä]

dolābra f (genitive dolābrae); first declension

1. pickaxe

First-declension noun.

• → English: dolabra
• → Ancient Greek: δηλάβρα (dēlábra)
• → Greek: δολάβρα (dolávra)
• → Georgian: დალაბრა (dalabra)
• → Old Armenian: դալապր (dalapr)

• “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolabra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolabra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dolabra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dolabra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin