battalia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…]but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides."
- "Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd"
- "Why, our battalia trebles that account"
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of battle.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: battālia, battuō, -