ascia

From Latin ascia (“axe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃa/
• Rhymes: -aʃʃa

ascia f (plural asce)

1. axe, tomahawk

• scure
• mannaia
• maestro d'ascia

ascia

1. third-person singular present indicative of asciare
2. second-person singular imperative of asciare

• asciata

According to one version, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-ih₂- (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) (see axe).

According to de Vaan, it is not plausible since a sequence *ks is usually retained in intervocalic Latin, which implies borrowing from an unidentified source. It's possible that the consonant cluster underwent metathesis in a different (IE?) language before the word entered Latin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki.a/

ascia f (genitive asciae); first declension

1. an axe
2. a mason's trowel

First declension.

• (axe): secūris

• *asciata
• ascicula
• *asciola
• ascio

• ascia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ascia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ascia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ascia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ascia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill