warda

See also: Warda

Latin

Alternative forms

garda, guarda, wardia

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *warda (“watch, watchpost, protection”). Alternatively a back-formation from wardō (“to herd cattle, ward against, guard”), itself from the same Germanic root.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ar.da/, [ˈu̯ärd̪ä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.da/, [ˈvärd̪ä]

Noun

warda f (genitive wardae); first declension^[1]^[2] (Middle Latin)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	warda	wardae
genitive	wardae	wardārum
dative	wardae	wardīs
accusative	wardam	wardās
ablative	wardā	wardīs
vocative	warda	wardae

Descendants

Old French: garde, gard, guarde
- Middle French: garde, warde
  - French: garde
- Norman: garde (Jersey)
- → Middle English: garde, guarde, gard
  - English: guard
Old Northern French: warde
- → Middle English: warde, ward (partially from Old English weard)
  - English: ward
Italian: guardia
Spanish: garda

References

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1128
^ warda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Maltese

Root
w-r-d
5 terms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwar.da/

Noun

warda f (singulative, dual wardtajn or wardtejn, plural urad or uradi or urud or uradijiet, paucal wardiet)

singulative of ward

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch wachten.

Verb

warda

to wait

[1] Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1128

[2] warda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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