cutlass

cutlass
\ \ [16] Appropriate as the name sounds, cutlass has no etymological connection with cut.
\ \ It comes from Old French cutelas, a derivative (denoting large size) of coutelknife’. This in turn goes back to Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culterknife, ploughshare’ (source of English coulter [OE] and cutler [14], whence cutlery [14]).
\ \ Cf.COULTER, CUTLERY

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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