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Definitions and meaning of sax

sax

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sæks/
  • Homophones: sacks, Sacks, Sachs, Sax
  • Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
  2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
Related terms

Verb

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

  1. (transitive, British dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. Clipping of saxophone.
Derived terms

Verb

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

  1. To play the saxophone

Etymology 3

Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. (fashion) a shade of colour similar to sky blue
Descendants
  • Japanese: サックス (sakkusu)

Anagrams

  • ASX, XAS

Aleut

Noun

sax

  1. bird skin coat

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑks/
  • Hyphenation: sax
  • Rhymes: -ɑks
  • Homophone: Sax

Etymology 1

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

Noun

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. sax, short sword, dagger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

Noun

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. (informal) sax, saxophone
    Synonym: saxofoon

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse sax. Doublet of saksa, Saksa, sakset, saksi (“claw”), saksi (“Saxon”), Saksi, and seax.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑks/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝ks̠]
  • Rhymes: -ɑks

Noun

sax

  1. (historical) seax (a type of sword)
    Synonyms: seax, viikinkimiekka

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • sexe, sex, sæx, seax

Etymology

From Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saks/
  • Rhymes: -aks

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. a knife (tool)
  2. a knife (weapon)

Descendants

  • English: sax; zax
  • Scots: saks; sax (verb) (through confluence with Norse form)

References

  • “sax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

sax

  1. alive
  2. healthy
  3. whole

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

sax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)

  1. a one-edged sword, a backsword
  2. (plural only) shears

Declension

Derived terms

  • saxa (“to cut with a 'sax'”)
  • saxknífr m (“dagger, dirk”)
  • saxoddr m (“the point of a 'sax”)

Related terms

  • saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

Descendants

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sax”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Scots

Alternative forms

  • sex, six

Etymology

From Middle English sex, byform of six.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saks/

Numeral

sax

  1. six

References

  • “sax, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  • “sex, num. and n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
  • “six, num. adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sǫx (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax c

  1. a pair of scissors; shears
  2. a trap for animals
Declension
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Finnish: sakset pl, saksi sg

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxofon, attested since 1934.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax c

  1. short of saxofon
Declension
Related terms
  • altsax
  • saxsektion
  • tenorsax

References

  • sax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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