šestoper

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 10 July 2021

šestoper

Etymology

šȇst +‎ pèro, calque of Russian шестопёр (šestopjór).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃestǒper/
• Hyphenation: šes‧to‧per

Noun

šestòper m (Cyrillic spelling шесто̀пер)

1. (historical, military) A six-flanged mace.
   • 1843, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, “Put u Senj”, in Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska, number 9, number 46, page 182:

     U stara vrěmena, kako to Valvazor piše, bila je ista kapa kano i buzdohan ili šestoper znamenje plemenštine i junačtva.

     In old times, as Valvazor writes, that same cap, like the mace or six-flanger, was a symbol of nobility and heroism.

   • 1920, Tin Ujević, Odlazak:

     Malena mjesta srca moga,
     Spomenak Brača, Imotskoga,
     I bljesak slavna šestopera,
     I miris, miris kalopera.

     The small towns of my heart,
     Recollections of Brač, of Imotski,
     And the flash of a glorious six-flanged mace,
     And the smell, the smell of costmary.

References

• “šestoper”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025