It is likely that "spatha" is the romanization of a Doric Greek σπάθα ("spáthā"). The word survives in Modern Greek as and . The Latin word became the French "épée", regional Spanish Occitan espasa, Portuguese and Spanish "espada", Italian "spada", Romanian "spadă" and Albanian "shpata", all meaning "sword". The English word "spatula" comes from Latin "spat"("h")"ula", the diminutive of "spatha". English spade, from Old English "spadu" or "spædu", is the Germanic cognate, derived from a Common Germanic "*spadō", ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European stem "*sph2-dh-".