The story
- Italian · derived fromspadaccino“swordsman”
- English todayspadassinicide
From spadassin + -icide, from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”).
Words from the same roots
Italianspadaccino all →
spadassin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
spadassinicide
Today it means: The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder. Full definition →
Italian spadaccino