spingarda

Italian

una spingarda (sense 1) — a springald

una spingarda (sense 2) — a blunderbuss

una spingarda (sense 3) paragonata a un più normale fucile — a punt gun compared to a more typical rifle

Alternative forms

• sbingarda, spinguarda (obsolete)

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Old French espringale, itself derived from Frankish *springan. Cognate with German springen (“to jump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spinˈɡar.da/
• Rhymes: -arda
• Hyphenation: spin‧gàr‧da

Noun

spingarda f (plural spingarde) (historical)

2. (weaponry) springald [14^th century]
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Della sconfitta de Francia, là dove morze lo re de Boemia e·llo re de Francia fu sconfitto dallo re de Egnilterra. [About the defeat of France, there where the king of Bohemia died, and the king of France was defeated by the king of England]” (chapter 14), in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     Bombarde, spingarde e aitre orribile cose da pericolare lo castiello e·lli avitatori. (Roman old Italian)

     Bombards, springalds, and other horrible things to endanger the castle and its inhabitants.

4. (firearms) blunderbuss [from 15^th century]
6. (firearms) punt gun [18^th–19^th century]
   • 1867, Ippolito Nievo, chapter IV (chapter 4), in Le confessioni di un ottuagenario [Confessions of an octogenarian]‎^[2], Florence: Le Monnier, page 169:

     […] ma i beccaccini si vengono educando alla malizia, e in quel mezzo minuto che lo sparo s’incanta, mi scappano un mezzo miglio lontano. Verrà tempo che si dovrà correr lor dietro colla spingarda.

     […] the snipes are growing wary of the trick, and, in that half-minute when the shot is stuck, they flee half a mile away. The time will come when you'll have to run after them with a punt gun.

Descendants

• → Portuguese: espingarda (“rifle”)

Further reading

• spingarda on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it