scrimer

English

Etymology

French escrimeur. See skirmish.

Noun

scrimer (plural scrimers)

1. (archaic) A fencing master, fencer.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     And for your rapier most especially,
     That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,
     If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,
     He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
     If you opposed them.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scrimer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• scrimeur — dated

Etymology

Borrowed from French escrimeur, modelled after scrimă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skriˈmer/

Noun

scrimer m (plural scrimeri, feminine equivalent scrimeră)

1. fencer

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	scrimer	scrimerul		scrimeri	scrimerii
genitive-dative	scrimer	scrimerului		scrimeri	scrimerilor
vocative	scrimerule			scrimerilor

Related terms

• scrima
• scrimare
• scrimă

See also

• floretă

References

• scrimer in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)