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What is exactly difference between fr:Javeline and fr:Javelot? One is "all such weapons" and second is "this is only about Roman times weapon"?

The frwiki article is rather short, but a bit of search gives the answer that the javeline is usually shorter and is used also as a hand weapon.

Translation by google translate of https://www.euraldic.com/lasu/tx/txt_la1905_armes.html this page :

« Polearm or throwing weapon that can be handled like a short pike or thrown like a javelin. The Javeline consists of wood, a sharp leaf-shaped iron, a metal heel, which can serve as a counterweight, and often this heel ends in a long, sharp point. The javelin is a weapon used at all times, in all countries, and that the blacks of Africa, especially in Ethiopia, still carry today, with the round shield, exactly like the Greek peltasts. The usual length of the weapon is 1.50 meters. But the javelins carried by the horsemen were longer, reaching up to 4 meters, like the spears or gay spears of the Stradiots, in the 16th century. The Frankish Framée, the Dardes of the Middle Ages were Javelines. These weapons disappear, with the XVth century, in the infantry. The Spanish genetaires, the Greek and Albanian Stradiots, the Turks and the Hungarians, however, continued to wear them. Lancers' spears, like those of modern Uhlans and dragoons, are Javelins. The name "spear" must be reserved for the large polearm, 5.50 meters to 7 meters long, which was handled with the Faucre. »

Thank you -I created entry as described in User_talk:PMG#Wrong_merge