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Perhaps originally Gaulish via
Vulgar Latin and Old
French battle from
Latin battuere (="to beat, to strike") via French, from the same
Gaulish root as "batter"...
- noun
battalia ("battle") and
ultimately from the
classical Latin verb
battuere ("to beat" or "to strike"). The
first use of the word in
English is attested...
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gladiators in
fighting and fencing", from Late
Latin (taken from Germanic)
battuere "beat", from
which the
English word
battery is also
derived via Middle...
- From
bataille from
battualia "military
drill in fencing," from
Latin battuere, see
batir below.
billar "billiard".
brigada "brigade"
broche "brooch,...
- beat' Cat batre, Sp. batir,
Emilian batü 'beaten, beat', Port.
bater Latin battuere, from
Gaulish *battu 'I strike, hit' W
bathu 'to coin, mint (money)', C...
- ˈtenwera/. If /w/ is
formed after a
geminate consonant, it is deleted. Cf. /
batˈtuere/ > /ˈbattwere/ > /ˈbattere/. /w/ is
deleted before unstressed back vowels...
- batalha, It. battaglia, Ro. bătaie
Alteration of
earlier battualia, from CL
battuere 'strike', an
early borrowing from Gaulish. from a~ab Occ. amb, Cat. amb...
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Antis (f.)
Ballaios Bardyllis Bato, may
derive from same root as
Latin battuere, "to strike", or the root *bha, "say, tell".
Birkenna Blodus,
Bledis Boiken...
