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saint
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
- (UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title) IPA(key): /s?n(t)/, /s?n(t)/
Etymology 1
From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sanctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancire (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English h?lga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).
Noun
saint (plural saints)
- A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
- Kateri Tekakwitha was proclaimed a saint.
- (figuratively, by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good.
- Dorothy Day was a living saint.
- Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!
- One of the blessed in heaven.
- (archaic) A holy object.
Synonyms
- (holy person): hallow (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- hallow
- holos
- holy
Etymology 2
From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).
Verb
saint (third-person singular simple present saints, present participle sainting, simple past and past participle sainted)
- (transitive) To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint.
- Many wish to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately.
Translations
Further reading
- saint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- saint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Astin, Insta, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, sat in, satin, stain, stian, tians, tisan
French
Etymology
From Latin sanctus (“holy”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophones: sain, sains, saints, sein, seing, seings, seins, ceins, ceint, ceints
Noun
saint m (plural saints, feminine sainte)
- saint
Adjective
saint (feminine singular sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)
- saintly (all meanings)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “saint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tians
Irish
Etymology
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Noun
saint f (genitive singular sainte)
- greed, avarice, covetousness
- great eagerness, desire
Declension
Synonyms
- cíocras, gabhálacht (“avarice”)
Mutation
Norman
Etymology
From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
saint m
- (Jersey) holy
Noun
saint m (plural saints)
- (Jersey, religion) saint
Old French
Alternative forms
- sanct (rare)
- saent (rare)
- seint (common, chiefly Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Latin sanctus
Noun
saint m (oblique plural sainz or saintz, nominative singular sainz or saintz, nominative plural saint)
- saint
Declension
Adjective
saint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sainte)
- holy
- pious; devout
Descendants
- ? English: saint
- French: saint
- Norman: saint (Jersey)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sai?nt/
Noun
saint m pl (not mutable)
- plural of sant
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diptych
English
Etymology
From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of ???????? (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from ?? (di) + -?????? (-ptukhos) (akin to Greek ????? (ptychí, “fold, layer”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?pt?k/
- Rhymes: -?pt?k
Noun
diptych (plural diptychs)
- A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
- (art) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
- A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church.
- A catalogue of saints.
- Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence transferred to a list of magistrates
- a. a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts (as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view)
- "a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ ... first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus" – François Closset
- b. any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic
- "the first volume of a diptych Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert" – F.E. Egler
- A novel published in two volumes, the two forming one story (as opposed to a duology or dilogy).
- a. a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts (as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view)
Hypernyms
- (art): polyptych
Related terms
- triptych
Translations
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