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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)
- (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’.
- 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:
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)
- (transitive, archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
- (intransitive, obsolete except in Scots) To make the sign of the cross.
- (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.
- 1889, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), Agamemnon, page 57 in The House of Atreus, 2nd edition,
References
Anagrams
- ANSI, ASIN, ISNA, Isan, Nias, Sian, Sina, anis, as in, nais, nasi, nasi', nias
Bavarian
Verb
sain
- (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
- (interrogative) where
Synonyms
- hain
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa?in
Adverb
sain
- 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)
- (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
- First-person singular past form of saama.
Finnish
Verb
sain
- 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)
- healthy; in good health
- 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
- Romanization of ????
Middle English
Verb
sain
- Alternative form of seien
Old French
Etymology
From Latin s?nus.
Adjective
sain m (oblique and nominative feminine singular saine)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
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)
- (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
- (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
- to bless or consecrate
- to make the sign of the cross, to genuflect
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sai?n/
Noun
sain f (plural seiniau, not mutable)
- 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)
- well late; arriving late; sluggish, tardy
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