different between sage vs sedate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.

Adjective

sage (comparative sager, superlative sagest)

1. Wise.
2. (obsolete) grave; serious; solemn

Synonyms

• (wise): See Thesaurus:wise
• (grave): See Thesaurus:serious

Translations

Noun

sage (plural sages)

1. A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.

Synonyms

• (wise person): See Thesaurus:sage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• rishi
• maharishi

Etymology 2

From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe.

Noun

sage (uncountable)

1. The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
2. Any plant in the genus Salvia
3. Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• salvia

Further reading

• Salvia officinalis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Salvia officinalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Japanese sage, from Japanese ??? (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.

Pronunciation

• Etymologically /s???/, but often /se?d?/ due to its English homograph.

Interjection

sage

1. (Internet slang) Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.

Related terms

• age

Verb

sage (third-person singular simple present sages, present participle saging, simple past and past participle saged)

1. (Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.

Derived terms

• polite sage

Usage notes

• This word is specific to imageboards. The original purpose of sage is to not bump a thread if one deems another's (often OP's) own post to be of little value.

Anagrams

• Sega, ages, geas, sega

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• san, son (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?za???/

Verb

sage (third-person singular present tense sät, past tense sat or sät, past participle jesat or jesät)

1. (Ripuarian) to say; to tell

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch saghe, from Old Dutch *saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek?-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sage f (plural sagen)

1. story of heraldry and valor, a saga.

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakeda.

Adjective

sage (genitive sageda, partitive sagedat)

1. frequent

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

sage (plural sages)

1. (of a person) wise: prudent, cautious, and judicious
2. (of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct
3. (of a child) Good, well-behaved, not naughty

Derived terms

• sage comme une image
• sage-femme

Noun

sage m or f (plural sages)

1. A person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious
2. A sage (person)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ages, âges, âgés

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?za???/

Verb

sage

1. inflection of sagen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Hausa

Verb

sag? (grade 4)

1. to become stiff or paralyzed

Latin

Adjective

s?ge

1. vocative masculine singular of s?gus

Noun

sage m

1. singular vocative of sagus

Noun

sage n

1. singular vocative of sagum

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from sapi?. Some forms have been altered on the basis of other words with forms in -a- and -au-.

Alternative forms

• sauge, sawge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?d?(?)/

Noun

sage (plural sages)

1. A sage; a person who serves as a fount of wisdom and knowledge.

Descendants

• English: sage
• Scots: sage

References

• “s??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Adjective

sage

1. Sage, considered, well thought-out.
2. Learned, schooled, educated; having much knowledge.

Descendants

• English: sage
• Scots: sage

References

• “s??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French sauge.

Noun

sage

1. Alternative form of sauge

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from Latin sapi?, sapere (“to taste; to discern; to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”).

Adjective

sage m or f

1. (Jersey) wise

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sage (imperative sag, present tense sager, simple past saga or saget or sagde, past participle saga or saget or sagd, present participle sagende)

1. to saw (cut something with a saw)

Related terms

• sag (noun)

References

• “sage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapi?.

Adjective

sage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sage)

1. wise (having wisdom)

Descendants

• English: sage
• French: sage
• Italian: saggio

Sathmar Swabian

Etymology

From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?.

Verb

sage

1. to say

References

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

English

Etymology

From Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare (“to settle”), causative of sedere (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??de?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??de?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

sedate (comparative more sedate, superlative most sedate)

1. (of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement.

   Synonyms: placid, staid, unruffled

   • 1642, Richard Watson, A Sermon Touching Schisme, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, p. 27,^[1]

     […] they will rashly huddle up all together, and not admitting the least check of a sedate judgement, publish onely the impetuous dictates of their indiscreet and too precipitant fancie […]

   • 1715, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Book 3, p. 5, lines 87-88,^[2]

     But who like thee can boast a Soul sedate,

     So firmly Proof to all the Shocks of Fate?

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 16,^[3]

     A reel or fling of some sort was in progress; and the usually sedate Farfrae was in the midst of the other dancers in the costume of a wild Highlander, flinging himself about and spinning to the tune.

   • 1989, Hilary Mantel, Fludd, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, Chapter 9, p. 149,^[4]

     Then she saw that they were waving their handkerchiefs; dipping them up and down, with a curiously sedate, formal motion.

2. (of an object, particularly a building) Not overly ornate or showy.
   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 6, p. 194,^[5]

     Sometimes she passed down avenues of sedate mansions, soberly numbered ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, and so on right up to two or three hundred, each the copy of the other, with two pillars and six steps and a pair of curtains neatly drawn […]

   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York: Macmillan, 1964, Part 4, Chapter 37,^[6]

     The shiny carriages of Yankee officers’ wives and newly rich Carpetbaggers splashed mud on the dilapidated buggies of the townspeople, and gaudy new homes of wealthy strangers crowded in among the sedate dwellings of older citizens.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, “Grown Up,” pp. 164-165,^[7]

     Facing the Parliament Buildings across James’ Bay arose a sedate stone and cement Post Office.

   • 1985, Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist, London: Jonathan Cape, p. 352^[8]

     The great hotel, with its look of sedate luxury, brooded massively there with people teeming about it.

Derived terms

• sedately
• sedateness

Translations

Verb

sedate (third-person singular simple present sedates, present participle sedating, simple past and past participle sedated)

1. To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug.

   Synonym: tranquilize

   • 1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 80,^[9]

     Though he may have been sedated, he knew I was there, knew who I was, knew I was talking to him.

2. To make tranquil.

   Synonyms: calm, soothe, tranquilize

Related terms

• resedate
• sedation
• sedative

Translations

Further reading

• sedate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sedate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sedate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• e-dates, seated, steade, teades, teased

Italian

Verb

sedate

1. second-person plural present indicative of sedare
2. second-person plural imperative of sedare
3. feminine plural of sedato

Latin

Verb

s?d?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of s?d?

References

• sedate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sedate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sedate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette