estocade
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French estoquade. Borrowed from Spanish estocada, ultimately from Italian stoccata.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]estocade f (plural estocades)
- (bullfighting) the mortal impalement of a bull
- (figurative, literary) a sudden and violent attack
- (fencing) a stroke with the tip of the sword
- Hyponym: botte
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “estocade” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “estocade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Paronyms
[edit]Categories:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms borrowed from Spanish
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French terms derived from Italian
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Bullfighting
- French literary terms
- fr:Fencing