estoc

French estoc, see there for more. Compare Middle English touk (“a sword”) (whence obsolete English tuck (“rapier, sword”)), Middle English stok(e) (“blow with a sword”) (both probably from Old French estoc).

estoc (plural estocs)

1. A type of sword used from the 14th to the 17th century, characterized by a long, straight, edgeless, sharply pointed blade designed for penetrating mail or plate.

Borrowed from French estoc.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈtɔk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [esˈtɔk]

estoc m (plural estocs)

1. rapier

• estocada
• estoquejar

• “estoc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Middle French estoc (“sword”), from Old French estoc (“the point of a sword, rapier”), deverbal of Old French estoquer, estochier (“to stab, thrust”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to thrust, poke”) or Middle High German stoken (“to stab, pierce”), both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn (“to be stiff, push, thrust”). More at stoke.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.tɔk/

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estoc m (plural estocs)

1. (type of) sword, rapier

• estoquer
• estocade

• “estoc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cotes, cotés, côtes, côtés

Borrowed from French estoc.

estoc n (uncountable)

1. (type of) sword, rapier

• estoc in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN