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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
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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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san
English
Etymology 1
Noun
san (plural sans)
- A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase ?, lowercase ?) that came after pi and before qoppa.
Translations
See also
- sigma
- San (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Shortening of sanatorium.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
san (plural sans)
- (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:
- ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’
- 2005, Dan Soucoup, ?Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
- River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:
Anagrams
- ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?n/
Noun
sán m (plural sanitté f or sanwá f)
- nose
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 61
Atong (India)
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
san
- day
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?san/
Noun
san f (plural sans)
- San; the Archaic Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).
Classical Nahuatl
Particle
san
- Alternative spelling of zan
Dongxiang
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic *sam, compare Mongolian ??? (sam).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?/
Noun
san
- comb
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /san/
Noun
san m (plural san)
- san (Greek letter)
Anagrams
- ans
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin s?nus.
Adjective
san
- healthy, sound
Related terms
- sanetât
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese san, from Latin sanctus. Cognate with Portuguese são and Spanish san.
Alternative forms
- San
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sa?]
Adjective
san m (apocopate, standard form santo)
- (before nouns which began by a consonant) Apocopic form of santo (“saint”)
Etymology 2
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese são (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin s?nus. Cognate with Portuguese são and Spanish sano.
Alternative forms
- sao
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sa?]
Adjective
san m (feminine singular sa, masculine plural sans, feminine plural sas)
- healthy, sound
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- Ay Jesús! miña Joiña!
- non falemos nesto mais,
- que dá grima sò o pensalo,
- Deus vos garde bo é san.
- Santiago. Febreiro doce
- Aÿ! que non sey que me dà,
- que me esfraquezo de todo,
- è non podo vafexàr.
- Oh, Jesus! My Jewel!
- Let's not talk about this anymore
- because it brings creeps just to think about it.
- God take care of you, safe and sound.
- Santiago, February twelve
- Oh!, I don't know what happens to me
- I'm totally weakening
- and I can't breathe
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
Related terms
- sandar
References
- “são” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “san” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “são” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “san” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “san” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “san” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Garifuna
Etymology
Probably from French cent.
Numeral
san
- hundred
Haitian Creole
Etymology 1
From French cent (“hundred”)
Numeral
san
- hundred
Etymology 2
From French sang (“blood”)
Noun
san
- blood
Irish
Etymology
From earlier ins an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sind?/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??n?/ (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu)
- IPA(key): /s??n?/ (before e, i, fhe, fhi)
Contraction
san
- preposition i + definite article an: in the (singular)
Usage notes
Used before vowel sounds and f (which lenites):
Related terms
Further reading
- "san" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “san” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
san m or f (invariable)
- san (Greek letter)
Etymology 2
- see santo
Noun
san m (invariable)
- (used before a consonant) Apocopic form of santo saint
- San Pietro — “Saint Peter”
See also
- sant', santo
Japanese
Romanization
san
- R?maji transcription of ??
- R?maji transcription of ??
Kuna
Noun
san
- meat
Lombard
Etymology
From sano.
Adjective
san
- healthy
Mandarin
Romanization
san (Zhuyin ???)
- Pinyin transcription of ????
san
- Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of sàn.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Etymology 1
A contracted form of earlier sægen, from Old English sæ??an, alternative form of se??an.
Verb
sãn
- Alternative form of seien
Etymology 2
From Old French san, alternative form of senz.
Preposition
san
- Alternative form of saunz
Min Nan
Norman
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin sum, from Classical Latin suum
Pronunciation
Determiner
san m
- (Jersey) his, her, its (used to qualify masculine nouns)
North Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian sunne. Cognates include West Frisian sinne.
Noun
san m
- (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum) sun
Etymology 2
From Old Frisian s?n.
Pronoun
san m (feminine sin, neuter sin, plural sin)
- (Föhr-Amrum) his
Old French
Noun
san m (oblique plural sans, nominative singular sans, nominative plural san)
- Alternative form of sens
Pali
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Sanskrit ????? (?van).
Noun
san m
- dog
Declension
Only consensus forms are shown.
Descendants
- ? Thai: ?? (s?a)
References
- “san”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.
Pnar
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *san, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *suun ~ *su?n ~ *s?n; cognate with Khasi san, Mang han², Mon ????? (p?s?n) and Proto-Palaungic *psan (whence Riang [Lang] k?an¹ and Danau ??n?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /san/
Numeral
san
- (cardinal) five
Rohingya
Alternative forms
- ????????????? (san) – Hanifi Rohingya script
Etymology
From Sanskrit ?????? (candra); cognate with Bengali ???? (cãdô).
Noun
san (Hanifi spelling ????????????)
- moon
Romani
Verb
san
- second-person singular present indicative of si
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From anns + an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sind?/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).
Preposition
san
- in the
Usage notes
- This form is not used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p, where sa is used instead.
- If followed by f, the f is lenited.
- facal - word
- san fhacal - in the word
Related terms
- ann an
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *s??n?, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sân/
Noun
s?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- dream
Declension
Derived terms
Somali
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *?is??-
Noun
san ?
- nose
References
- san Afmaal Somali-English Dictionary.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?san/, [?sãn]
- Rhymes: -an
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- San (in proper nouns, capitalized)
Adjective
san m (apocopate, standard form santo)
- (before the noun) Apocopic form of santo (“saint”)
Usage notes
Not used in front of the following names (use santo instead): Tomás, Tomé, Toribio, and Domingo.
Noun
san m (plural sanes)
- (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme. The participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others.
Etymology 2
Noun
san f (plural sanes)
- san; the Greek letter M, ?
Tatar
Noun
san
- number
- shin, hind leg
- limb
Ter Sami
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ????? (sáni).
Noun
san
- sledge, sleigh
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English sun
Noun
san
- sun
Derived terms
- sankamap
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English sun.
Noun
san
- sun
Turkish
Etymology
Related to saymak and sanmak.
Noun
san (definite accusative san?, plural sanlar)
- name
- reputation
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [sa?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [?a????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [?a????] ~ [sa????]
Verb
san
- to flatten
- to make equal
Derived terms
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *sa?n. Cognate with Thai ??? (s?an), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (s?n), Lü ??? (?aan), Khün ????, Shan ???? (s?an), Ahom ???????????? (san).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?a?n??/
- Tone numbers: san1
- Hyphenation: san
Verb
san (old orthography san)
- to weave
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