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sabin

English

Etymology

From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?se?b?n/

Noun

sabin (plural sabins)

  1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
    • 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:
      Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.

Anagrams

  • Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, bains, basin, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba

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sain

English

Etymology

From Middle English sainen, seinen, senen, sinen, signen, from Old English s?nian, se?nian, from Proto-Germanic *segn?n? (to mark with a cross, bless), from Latin sign?, from signum. Cognate with Dutch zegenen (to bless), German segnen (to bless), Irish séan (sign, omen) and Scottish Gaelic seun (a charm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /se?n/
  • Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

sain (third-person singular simple present sains, present participle saining, simple past and past participle sained)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete except in Scots) To make the sign of the cross.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.
    • 1889, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), Agamemnon, page 57 in The House of Atreus, 2nd edition,
      Far from my speech stands he who sains and saves.
    • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:
      The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.

References

Anagrams

  • ANSI, ASIN, ISNA, Isan, Nias, Sian, Sina, anis, as in, nais, nasi, nasi', nias

Bavarian

Verb

sain

  1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) to be

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Bikol Central

Pronoun

saín

  1. (interrogative) where

Synonyms

  • hain

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa?in

Adverb

sain

  1. which

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

  • zèinan, soin

Etymology

From Middle High German sein, s?n, from Old High German s?n (to be). Cognate with German sein.

Verb

sain (irregular, auxiliary sain)

  1. (Tredici Comuni) to be

References

  • “sain” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Verb

sain

  1. First-person singular past form of saama.

Finnish

Verb

sain

  1. First-person singular indicative past form of saada.

Anagrams

  • Sian, anis, nais, nais-, sian

French

Etymology

From Old French sain, from Latin s?nus, from Proto-Indo-European *sw?-n- (healthy; whole; active; vigorous).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s??/
  • Homophones: sains, saint, saints, sein, seing, seings, seins
  • Rhymes: -??

Adjective

sain (feminine singular saine, masculine plural sains, feminine plural saines)

  1. healthy; in good health
  2. healthful; beneficial to health of body or mind.

Derived terms

  • sain et sauf

Related terms

  • santé
  • sanitaire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • anis, nais, nias

Manchu

Romanization

sain

  1. Romanization of ????

Middle English

Verb

sain

  1. Alternative form of seien

Old French

Etymology

From Latin s?nus.

Adjective

sain m (oblique and nominative feminine singular saine)

  1. healthy; in good health

Descendants

  • French: sain

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sani (different) (whence Welsh hân (separation), from Proto-Indo-European *senH-; cognate with Latin sine, Ancient Greek ???? (áter, without, apart from), Sanskrit ??????? (sanitúr, without), Old English sundor (apart, separately)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /san?/

Adjective

sain

  1. different
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c23
  2. special
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d7
    • c. 850, “Pangur Bán”, stanza 1:

Usage notes

This adjective is uninflected and always precedes the noun it modifies, which (unless it starts with one of d l n s t) undergoes lenition.

Mutation

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 sain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin su?nus.

Noun

sain n (plural sainuri)

  1. (archaic) pork meat

See also

  • porc
  • carne

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Sursilvan) sein
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Etymology

From Latin sinus (compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Spanish seno).

Noun

sain m

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, anatomy) breast (of a woman)

Related terms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
  • (Sutsilvan) péz
  • (Puter, Vallader) pet

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English (whence also English sain), from Old English, from Latin. Cognate to Scottish Gaelic seun (a charm).

Verb

sain

  1. to bless or consecrate
  2. to make the sign of the cross, to genuflect

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sai?n/

Noun

sain f (plural seiniau, not mutable)

  1. sound
    Synonym: s?n

Derived terms



Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

  • sein

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn, from Proto-Germanic *sainaz, *sainijaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sá???n/ (example of pronunciation)
    Rhymes: -é???n

Adjective

sain (comparative sainan, superlative sainest)

  1. well late; arriving late; sluggish, tardy

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