Tanto, stiletto, whats that?

[DeLightsabor]

what makes a tanto a tanto, or a stiletto a stiletto.

what affects in a blade have to do with what they're called?

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[Esav Benyamin]

"Tanto" is Japanese for 'short sword' and was originally a long dagger. We generally now use it for an extreme version of one sort of an old tanto style.

"Stiletto" is Italian for 'little stylus', a stylus being a Graeco-Roman pen used to scratch letters on the waxed tablets they used as erasable notepads. In other words, a long, thin, pointed tool.

 

[Crayola]

Most terms indicate function, like a Hawkbill, clip point, spear point, etc. But the world of knives has its own nomenclature that we just need to learn. A dagger is just a symmetrical, double edged blade, Wharncliffe refers to a sheeps foot blade with a pointy point instead of a radical rounded pointless point like in a sheeps foot, and so on. Just gotta pour some coffee and read all of the old posts! Do that and you'll be even smarter than Tom Mayo or Kir Carson! Well, maybe not but it is a good start.

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[Raptor]

Delighsabor,
Check out this link:
http://agrussell.com/

Click on "Knife Encyclopedia". even if those terms are not listed, many other will be.

Hope this helps.

--The Raptor--