sagina

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin sagina (“feasting, nourishment, corpulence”).

Noun[edit]

sagina (plural saginas)

  1. Any herb of the genus Sagina.

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satisfy”), source of Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“full”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sagīna f (genitive sagīnae); first declension

  1. feasting, nourishment
  2. corpulence

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sagīna sagīnae
Genitive sagīnae sagīnārum
Dative sagīnae sagīnīs
Accusative sagīnam sagīnās
Ablative sagīnā sagīnīs
Vocative sagīna sagīnae

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Descendants[edit]

Verb[edit]

sagīnā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sagīnō

References[edit]

  • “sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sagina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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