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sax

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sæks/
  • Homophones: sacks, Sacks
  • Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger), from Proto-Germanic *sahs? (stone chip, knife), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (to cut). Cognate with North Frisian sax (knife, sword), Middle Dutch sas (knife), Middle Low German sax (knife), Middle High German sahs (a knife), Danish saks (a pair of scissors), Swedish sax (a pair of scissors), Icelandic sax (a short heavy sword), Latin sec? (cut). See also Saxon, saw.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax.
  2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
Related terms

Verb

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. Clipping of saxophone.

Anagrams

  • ASX, XAS

Aleut

Noun

sax

  1. bird skin coat

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s?ks/
  • Hyphenation: sax
  • Rhymes: -?ks
  • Homophone: Sax

Etymology 1

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahs? (stone chip, knife), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (to cut). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

Noun

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. sax, short sword, dagger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

Noun

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. (informal) sax, saxophone
    Synonym: saxofoon

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • sexe, sex, sæx, seax

Etymology

From Old English seax, from Proto-Germanic *sahs?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saks/
  • Rhymes: -aks

Noun

sax (plural saxes or saxen)

  1. A knife (tool)
  2. A knife (weapon)

Descendants

  • English: sax, zax

References

  • “sax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

sax

  1. alive
  2. healthy
  3. whole

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahs? (dagger, knife). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (to cut).

Noun

sax n (genitive sax, plural s?x)

  1. a oneedged sword, a backsword
  2. (plural only) shears

Declension

Related terms

  • saxar m pl (Saxons)

Derived terms

  • saxa (to cut with a 'sax')
  • saxknífr m (dagger, dirk)
  • saxoddr m (the point of a 'sax)

Descendants

References

sax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press


Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sex, byform of six.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saks/

Numeral

sax

  1. six

Related terms

  • saxt (sixth)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse s?x (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahs?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax c

  1. a pair of scissors; shears
  2. short of saxofon
  3. a trap for animals

Declension

Related terms

  • altsax
  • björnsax
  • bultsax
  • fårsax
  • häcksax
  • kökssax
  • ljussax
  • nagelsax
  • plåtsax
  • rävsax
  • saxa
  • saxfiske
  • saxning
  • saxnäbb
  • saxsektion
  • saxskänkel
  • saxskär
  • saxsprint
  • sysax
  • tenorsax
  • trädgårdssax
  • ullsax

References

  • sax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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sox

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

sox pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) plural of sock (footwear)

Derived terms

  • Bosox
  • Chisox

Anagrams

  • OS X

Parauk

Alternative forms

  • (PRC orthography) soux

Etymology

From Proto-Palaungic *c???, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *c??.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so?/

Noun

sox 

  1. (zoology) dog

References

Watkins, Justin (2013) Dictionary of Wa, Leiden

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