gladius
Americannoun
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gladii
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Origin of gladius
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1510–20
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This structure varies widely, from the rounded cuttlebone in cuttlefish to the thin, blade-like gladius in many squid, as well as the spiral shell of the ram's horn squid.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Instead, the researchers’ analysis found that S. bideni’s inner shell is a gladius, a triangular shell-like remnant found in squids and vampire squids.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
British residents cannot legally own guns without a license, so Renshaw had bought a nineteen-inch gladius sword.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
The officers searched the house of Renshaw’s uncle, where they found the gladius sword, inside a laundry cupboard.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
It ricocheted off his gladius and blasted Percy off his horse.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
The Scots, according to Tacitus, used chariots and iron swords in the battle of the Grampians--"enormes gladii sine mucrone."
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
Observe another testimony which he addeth out of Augustine, lib. de Fide, Excommunicatio debet supplere locum visibilis gladii, which he Englisheth thus: “Excommunication comes in only to supply the want of the civil sword.”
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Castellio then attacked Calvin directly in a new work, Contra libellum Calvini in quo ostendere conatur hæreticos jure gladii coercendos esse, which was not published until 1612, in Holland.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway
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