different between saint vs novena

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)

1. 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.
2. (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!

3. One of the blessed in heaven.
4. (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)

1. (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)

1. saint

Adjective

saint (feminine singular sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)

1. 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)

1. greed, avarice, covetousness
2. great eagerness, desire

Declension

Synonyms

• cíocras, gabhálacht (“avarice”)

Mutation

Norman

Etymology

From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

saint m

1. (Jersey) holy

Noun

saint m (plural saints)

1. (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)

1. saint

Declension

Adjective

saint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sainte)

1. holy
2. pious; devout

Descendants

• ? English: saint
• French: saint
• Norman: saint (Jersey)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sai?nt/

Noun

saint m pl (not mutable)

1. plural of sant

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin nov?na, from Latin nov?nus (“nine [each]”).

Noun

novena (plural novenas or novenae)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nov?nus (“nine”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /no?v?.n?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nu?b?.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /no?ve.na/

Adjective

novena

1. feminine singular of novè

Noun

novena f (plural novenes)

1. (music) ninth
2. (Roman Catholicism) novena

Derived terms

Galician

Noun

novena f (plural novenas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena

Adjective

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

Italian

Noun

novena f (plural novene)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena

Related terms

• nove

Latin

Noun

nov?na f (genitive nov?nae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) novena (recitation of prayers for nine days)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Adjective

nov?na

1. nominative feminine singular of nov?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of nov?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of nov?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of nov?nus
5. vocative neuter plural of nov?nus

Adjective

nov?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of nov?nus

References

• novena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nov?na.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu.?ve.n?/
• Hyphenation: no?ve?na

Noun

novena f (plural novenas)

1. a period of nine days
2. a set of nine things
3. (Roman Catholicism) novena (a recitation of prayers for nine days)

Adjective

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?bena/, [no???e.na]

Adjective

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

Noun

novena f (plural novenas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena