saxo
French
Etymology
From saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“phone”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”).
Noun
saxo m (plural saxos)
Further reading
- “saxo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) saxō
Spanish
Etymology 1
Noun
saxo m (plural saxos)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin saxum, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“cut”). Compare Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Italian sasso (“stone”) (which were, unlike the Spanish word, inherited).
Noun
saxo m (plural saxos)
Further reading
- “saxo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European