sarissa
noun
sarissa is a noun meaning “A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-R-I-S-S-A, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sarissa is sarissas or sarissae.
What does sarissa mean?
noun
- 1
A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sarissa
- sarissas plural
- sarissae plural
- sarisa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sarissa?
Sarissa appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Sarissa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sarisse |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sarissa come from?
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάρισσα (sárissa).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).