different between arrow vs sagitta

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English arow, arwe, from Old English earh, arewe, arwe, from Proto-Germanic *arhw?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?érk?o- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv, ørvur (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (ar?azna, “dart”), Latin arquus, arcus (“bow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æ?.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?.o?/, /????.o?/, /???.o?/
• (Southern American) IPA^(key): /?æ?.?/
• Hyphenation: ar?row
• Rhymes: -ær??

Noun

arrow (plural arrows)

1. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
2. A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. ?).
3. (graph theory) A directed edge.
4. (colloquial, darts) A dart.
   • 2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night (page 182)

     The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
     “Good arrows!” came from all around the room. Total silence came from the opposition corner.

5. (computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
6. (botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.

Synonyms

• (projectile): streal
• (in graph theory): arc, directed edge

Derived terms

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Verb

arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)

1. (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
2. (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.
3. (intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
4. (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.

   Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.

Etymology 2

Representing pronunciation.

Contraction

arrow

1. (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 153:

     though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.

Anagrams

• worra

English

Etymology

From Latin sagitta (“arrow”).

Noun

sagitta (plural sagittas)

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. (anatomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa??it.ta/, [s?ä???t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa?d??it.ta/, [s??d??it???]

Noun

sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension

1. arrow, bolt
2. (medicine) lancet
3. (botany) arrowhead, a plant of the genus Sagittaria

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

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, 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