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English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?ka?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt
• Hyphenation: ac?count

Etymology 1

From Middle English account, acounte, accounten, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin comput? (“to sum up”).

Noun

account (plural accounts)

1. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
2. (banking) A bank account.
   • 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:

     The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.

3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

   Synonyms: accounting, explanation
4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
5. A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]

   Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation

   • 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London

     A laudible account of the city of London.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

   Synonyms: membership, registration

   Meronym: username

9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. Profit; advantage.

Usage notes

• Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
• Account, narrative, narration, recital are all words applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
  • Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; for example, a vivid account of a battle, of a shipwreck, of an anecdote, etc.
  • A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; for example, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, the narrative of the film etc.
  • Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
  • Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; such as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc, a piano recital (played without sheet music), a recital of a poem (learned by heart).

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (akaunto)
• ? Swahili: akaunti

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.

Verb

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

1. To provide explanation.
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
   2. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
   3. (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem

      • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, III.8:

        The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?

   4. (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]

      • Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

   5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]

   6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]

   7. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]

   8. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]

   9. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
2. To count.
   1. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
      • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

        neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.

   2. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
   3. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

        Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• accountable
• accountant

Further reading

• account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• account at OneLook Dictionary Search
• account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English account.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?u?nt/
• Hyphenation: ac?count

Noun

account n (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)

1. a subscription to an electronic service

Related terms

• accountant

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: akun

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English account. Doublet of conto.

Noun

account m (invariable)

1. (computing) account

   Synonym: conto

Further reading

• account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at saw, say. Doublet of saw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

saga (plural sagas)

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

Translations

Anagrams

• AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag

Afar

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *?aac-. Compare Somali sac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????/

Noun

sagá f (masculine sagáytu, plural láa m)

1. cow

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Balinese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sa.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/

Etymology 1

Old Norse saga

Noun

saga f (plural sagues)

1. saga

Etymology 2

Arabic ??????? (s?qa)

Noun

saga f (plural sagues)

1. back, behind, rear

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga

1. saga

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Faroese

Etymology

From sag (“saw”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: sagað

Verb

saga (third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað)

1. to saw

Conjugation

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *sa?a, variant of *ca?a, from Proto-Oceanic *sa?a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sa?a.

Noun

saga

1. (anatomy) thigh

Finnish

Noun

saga

1. Alternative spelling of saaga

Declension

French

Etymology

Old Norse segja (“to say”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.?a/

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

Further reading

• “saga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• agas

Galician

Etymology

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. sorceress, witch
2. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
3. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??a/
• Rhymes: -a??a

Etymology 1

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”).

Noun

saga f (genitive singular sögu, nominative plural sögur)

1. a story

2. a history

3. a saga

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From sög (“saw”).

Verb

saga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sagaði, supine sagað)

1. to saw

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

saga

1. indefinite genitive plural of sög

Anagrams

• gasa

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga (first-person possessive sagaku, second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/
• Hyphenation: sà?ga

Etymology 1

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural saghe)

1. saga

Etymology 2

From Latin s?ga.

Noun

saga f (plural saghe)

1. (obsolete, literary) witch

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

saga

1. singular feminine of sago

Anagrams

• gasa

Japanese

Romanization

saga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Latin

Etymology 1

Substantivisation of the female form of s?gus (“soothsaying”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sa?.?a/, [?s?ä??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/, [?s????]

Noun

s?ga f (genitive s?gae); first declension

1. a female soothsayer, diviner, fortune-teller, prophetess, witch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: saga

Etymology 2

Adjective

s?ga

1. inflection of s?gus:
   1. singular feminine nominative/vocative
   2. plural neuter nominative/accusative/vocative

Adjective

s?g?

1. singular feminine ablative of s?gus

Etymology 3

Noun

saga n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sagum

Etymology 4

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (genitive sagae); first declension

1. (New Latin) saga
   • Saxonis Grammatici Historia danica. Recensuit et commentariis illustravit Dr. Petrus Erasmus Müller. Opus morte Mülleri interruptum absolvit Mag. Joannes Matthias Velschow, pars posterior, 1858, p. lxii:

Declension

First-declension noun.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (sagà) IPA^(key): [s?????]
• (sãga) IPA^(key): [?s?ä????]

Etymology 1

Noun

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 4

1. button

   sagas ?si?ti - to sew buttons on

Declension

Derived terms

• (diminutive nouns) sagel?, sagut?

Related terms

• (verb) segti

Etymology 2

From Old Norse.

Noun

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 2

1. saga
2. (in broader sense) story, legend

Declension

Synonyms

• (legend): sakm? f

Anagrams

• gasa

References

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /sa??/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /sa?a/
• Rhymes: -a??, -??, -?

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Etymology 2

From English saga, from Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”).

Noun

saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)

1. saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
2. saga (long epic story)

Further reading

• “saga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of sag) sagen
• (of sage) saget
• (of sage) sagde (simple past)
• (of sage) sagd (past participle)

Noun

saga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of sag

Verb

saga

1. inflection of sage:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Norse saga, whence also the modern doublet of soge. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sag?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

saga f or m (definite singular sagaen or sagaa, indefinite plural sagaar or sagaer, definite plural sagaane or sagaene)

1. a saga

Etymology 2

From sag (“saw”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

saga (present tense sagar, past tense saga, past participle saga, passive infinitive sagast, present participle sagande, imperative sag)

1. to saw

Alternative forms

• sage (e-infinitive)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

saga f

1. definite singular of sag

References

• “saga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• gaas, gasa, saag

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??/, [?s?.??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sagô (“saw, scythe”), *sag?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *s?ik- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German [Term?] (“saga”) (German Säge), Old Norse s?g (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg).

Alternative forms

• sagu

Noun

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saw (tool)

Descendants

• Middle English: sawe
  • Scots: seg
  • English: saw
    • Sranan Tongo: sa

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”). More at saw.

Noun

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saying; statement
2. story, tale; narrative

Declension

Related terms

• sagu

Etymology 3

Verb

saga

1. imperative of se??an

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f

1. story

Descendants

• Middle High German: sage
  • German: Sage
  • Luxembourgish: So

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to say”)

Noun

saga f (genitive s?gu, plural s?gur)

1. story, history, legend, saga

Declension

Descendants

References

• saga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f

1. statement, discourse, report

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga (Old Norse prose narrative)
2. (by extension) saga (long, epic story)

Romanian

Etymology

From French saga.

Noun

saga f (uncountable)

1. saga

Declension

Sasak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâ??a/
• Hyphenation: sa?ga

Noun

s?ga f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. saga

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga, English saw, German Sage. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Pronunciation

Noun

saga c

1. fairy tale
2. epic, long story

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: saaga

Anagrams

• agas

Tagalog

Noun

sagà

1. vine with small, red, and black seeds often used as beads

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s???]

Noun

saga (definite accusative sagay?, plural sagalar)

1. Old Norse (Icelandic) saga

Declension