Etymology

rapier

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Today it means: A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless), designed predominantly for thrusting; used during the Renaissance period of Europe for civilian duelling Full definition →

Middle French rapiere ← Old French rapiere ← Spanish raspadera
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromraspar“to scrape”
  2. Spanish · derived fromraspadera“poker; raker; scraper”
  3. Old French · derived fromrapiere
  4. Middle French · derived from(espee) rapiere
  5. Middle French · borrowed fromrapiere
  6. English todayrapier

Borrowed from Middle French rapiere, from Middle French (espee) rapiere, from Old French rapiere, raspiere, from Spanish raspadera (“poker; raker; scraper”), from Spanish raspar (“to scrape”), of Germanic origin. More at rasp.

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