Saxo

See also: saxo and saxó

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs (“dagger, knife”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsak.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsak.so]

Noun

Saxō m (genitive Saxōnis); third declension

1. A person from the Germanic tribal community of the Saxons
2. (Medieval Latin, Britain, Ireland, by extension) An English person.

   Synonym: Anglosaxones (in plural)

3. (Medieval Latin, Germany) A speaker of Low German. [from 12th c.]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Saxō	Saxōnēs
genitive	Saxōnis	Saxōnum
dative	Saxōnī	Saxōnibus
accusative	Saxōnem	Saxōnēs
ablative	Saxōne	Saxōnibus
vocative	Saxō	Saxōnēs

Descendants

• Old French: saisoigne, sesne
  • Anglo-Norman: sessoun
• → Old French: Saxon (semi-learned)
  • → Middle English: Saxoun
    • English: Saxon (partially)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *Sėɨs (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Irish: Saxa
• → Old Irish: Saxain (see there for further descendants)

References

• “Saxones”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Saxo”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC