sax
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /sæks/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophones: sacks, Sacks, Sachs, Sax
- Rhymes: -æks
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
editsax (plural saxes)
- A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
- (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
Related terms
editVerb
editsax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)
Etymology 2
editClipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
Noun
editsax (plural saxes)
- Clipping of saxophone.
Derived terms
editVerb
editsax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)
- To play the saxophone
Anagrams
editEtymology 3
editClipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.
Noun
editsax (plural saxes)
Descendants
edit- Japanese: サックス (sakkusu)
Aleut
editNoun
editsax
- bird skin coat
Dutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed, 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
editsax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.
Noun
editsax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)
Finnish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Old Norse sax. Doublet of saksa, Saksa, sakset, saksi (“claw”), saksi (“Saxon”), Saksi, and seax.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsax
- (historical) seax (a type of sword)
- Synonyms: seax, viikinkimiekka
Declension
editInflection of sax (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sax | saxit | |
genitive | saxin | saxien | |
partitive | saxia | saxeja | |
illative | saxiin | saxeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sax | saxit | |
accusative | nom. | sax | saxit |
gen. | saxin | ||
genitive | saxin | saxien | |
partitive | saxia | saxeja | |
inessive | saxissa | saxeissa | |
elative | saxista | saxeista | |
illative | saxiin | saxeihin | |
adessive | saxilla | saxeilla | |
ablative | saxilta | saxeilta | |
allative | saxille | saxeille | |
essive | saxina | saxeina | |
translative | saxiksi | saxeiksi | |
abessive | saxitta | saxeitta | |
instructive | — | saxein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsax (plural saxes)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.
Northern Kurdish
editAdjective
editsax
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Noun
editsax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)
- a one-edged sword, a backsword
- (plural only) shears
Declension
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
edit- saxar m pl (“Saxons”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit“sax”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Scots
edit← 5 | 6 | 7 → |
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Cardinal: sax Ordinal: saxt |
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English sex, byform of six.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editsax
References
edit- “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
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse sǫx (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editsax c
Declension
editDeclension of sax | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sax | saxen | saxar | saxarna |
Genitive | sax | saxens | saxars | saxarnas |
Related terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editClipping of saxofon, attested since 1934.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editsax c
- short of saxofon
Declension
editDeclension of sax | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sax | saxen | saxar | saxarna |
Genitive | sax | saxens | saxars | saxarnas |
Related terms
editReferences
edit- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/æks
- Rhymes:English/æks/1 syllable
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- British English
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- en:Musical instruments
- en:Woodwind instruments
- en:Fashion
- Aleut lemmas
- Aleut nouns
- ale:Clothing
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɑks
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɑks/1 syllable
- Dutch terms with homophones
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Dutch terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch common-gender nouns
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- Dutch masculine nouns
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- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Finnish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- Finnish terms borrowed from Old Norse
- Finnish learned borrowings from Old Norse
- Finnish terms derived from Old Norse
- Finnish doublets
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Finnish terms spelled with X
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- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Weapons
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Middle English/aks
- Rhymes:Middle English/aks/1 syllable
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Tools
- enm:Weapons
- Northern Kurdish lemmas
- Northern Kurdish adjectives
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse neuter nouns
- Old Norse pluralia tantum
- Old Norse neuter a-stem nouns
- non:Weapons
- Scots terms derived from Old English
- Scots terms inherited from Old English
- Scots terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Scots terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Scots terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Scots terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Scots terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scots terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Scots terms inherited from Middle English
- Scots terms derived from Middle English
- Scots terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scots lemmas
- Scots numerals
- Scots 1-syllable words
- Scots cardinal numbers
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish clippings