Spießrute

German

Alternative forms

Spiessrute (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)

Etymology

From Spieß (“pike”) +‎ Rute (“rod”); attested from the 16th century onwards.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃpiːsˌʁuːtə/
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Hyphenation: Spieß‧ru‧te

Noun

Spießrute f (genitive Spießrute, plural Spießruten)

(military, historical) kind of prod used to punish lansquenets

Declension

Declension of Spießrute [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Spießrute	die	Spießruten
genitive	einer	der	Spießrute	der	Spießruten
dative	einer	der	Spießrute	den	Spießruten
accusative	eine	die	Spießrute	die	Spießruten

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Danish: spidsrod
→ Norwegian Bokmål: spissrot
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: spissrot
→ Polish: szpicruta

References

Friedrich Kluge (1995), “Spießrute”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading

“Spießrute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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