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7-letter words (1 found)

SAGITTA,

6-letter words (4 found)

AGITAS,GAITAS,GAITTS,TAIGAS,

5-letter words (13 found)

AGAST,AGIST,AGITA,AIGAS,GAITA,GAITS,GAITT,SAIGA,SATAI,STAIG,TAIGA,TAIGS,TAITS,

4-letter words (22 found)

AGAS,AIAS,AIGA,AITS,GAIT,GAST,GATS,GIST,GITS,ITAS,SAAG,SAGA,SATI,STAG,STAT,TAGS,TAIG,TAIS,TAIT,TATS,TIGS,TITS,

3-letter words (26 found)

AAS,AGA,AGS,AIA,AIS,AIT,ATS,ATT,GAS,GAT,GIS,GIT,ITA,ITS,SAG,SAI,SAT,SIG,SIT,TAG,TAI,TAS,TAT,TIG,TIS,TIT,

2-letter words (12 found)

AA,AG,AI,AS,AT,GI,IS,IT,SI,ST,TA,TI,

You can make 78 words from sagitta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sagitta

sagitta

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈd͡ʒɪt.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə

Noun

sagitta (plural sagittas or (arrowworm) sagittae)

  1. The keystone of an arch.
  2. (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
  3. (zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.
  4. Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.

Related terms

  • sagittal

Translations

References

  • “sagitta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.

A minority view connects it to sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈɡit.ta/, [s̠äˈɡɪt̪ːä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈd͡ʒit.ta/, [säˈd͡ʒit̪ːä]

Noun

sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension

  1. an arrow, shaft, bolt
  2. (metonymically)
    1. (botany) the extreme thin part of a vine branch or shoot
    2. the arrowhead (plant of the genus Sagittaria)
    3. (Late Latin, medicine) a lancet (instrument for bloodletting)

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: sãdzeatã
    • Romanian: săgeată
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: saetta
      • → Maltese: sajjetta
    • Sicilian: sajitta
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: saete
    • Istriot: sàita
    • Ladin: saëta, sita
    • Piedmontese: sajëta
    • Romansch: sajetta
    • Venetian: sita, saéta
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: saete, saiete; sajette (latinized)
      • French: sagette
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: sageta
    • Occitan: sageta
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: saeta
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: saeta
      • Galician: seta
      • Portuguese: seta
    • Spanish: saeta
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: saitta
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Albanian: shigjetë
    • → Tsakonian: σογίτθα (sogíttha)
    • → Greek: σαΐτα (saḯta)
    • → Old Irish: saiget (see there for further descendants)
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *saɣeθ (see there for further descendants)
  • Later borrowings:
    • → Catalan: sagita
    • → English: sagitta
    • → Esperanto: sago
    • → Italian: sagitta
    • → Translingual: Sagitta
    • → Spanish: sagita
    • → Volapük: sagit

See also

  • arcus m

References

  • “sagitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sagitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sagitta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sagitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “sagitta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “sagitta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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