Question: When does a knife cease to be a knife and become a sword?

Answer: When certain Rendo' Forum members agree & say it does!

gladius (genitive gladiī); m, second declension

1. sword Mitte gladium in vaginam. Put the sword into its sheath. Gladium vagina proripere. To draw a sword hastily from its sheath. Gladio incumbere. To fall on one's sword. In gladium incumbere. To fall on one's sword.

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural nominative gladius gladiī genitive gladiī gladiōrum dative gladiō gladiīs accusative gladium gladiōs ablative gladiō gladiīs vocative gladie gladiī#### [edit] Synonyms

• (sword): ēnsis, mūcrō, spatha

[edit] Derived terms

• gladiātor
• gladiolus

Pity, the Gladiators who fought each other with a Gladius**** had to be satisfied that their weapons were long knives rather than swords.  Does that mean that they were any less efficient at killing?
And maybe the Flaming Swords that the Cherubim כרובים at the Gates of Gan Eden held aloft were Flaming Long Knives rather than a Swords, but either way, the Hebrew word in Genesis 3, verse 24, חרב, refers to a Bladed Weapon rather than a Blunt One.
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