thumb|100px|Montante from 15th or 16th centuries. The montante is a two-handed sword used primarily in Spain and Portugal during the 15th to 17th centuries.
thumb|100px|Montante from 15th or 16th centuries. The montante is a two-handed sword used primarily in Spain and Portugal during the 15th to 17th centuries.
It developed from the longswords of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Its characteristics are a middle step between a standard European longsword and a German zweihänder, which it developed simultaneously with.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).