sage

See also: Sage, saĝe, säge, and Säge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɪdʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.

Adjective

sage (comparative sager, superlative sagest)

1. Wise.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     All you sage counsellors, hence!

   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, […] , London: Printed by J.M. for James Alleſtry, […] , OCLC 78038412:

     commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counselled the general to retreat

2. (obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
   • 1645, John Milton, “Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], OCLC 606951673:

     [Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.

Synonyms

• (wise): See Thesaurus:wise
• (grave): See Thesaurus:serious

Translations

wise

• Belarusian: му́дры m (múdry)
• Catalan: savi (ca)
• Czech: moudrý (cs), rozumný (cs)
• Dutch: wijs (nl)
• Finnish: viisas (fi)
• French: sage (fr)
• Georgian: ბრძნული (brʒnuli)
• German: weise (de)
• Greek: σοφός (el) m (sofós)
• Hungarian: bölcs (hu)
• Irish: eagnaí
• Italian: saggio (it), savio (it)
• Japanese: 賢い (ja) (かしこい, kashikoi), 賢明な (ja) (けんめいな, kenmei na), 大人しい (ja) (otonashī)

• Macedonian: му́дар (múdar)
• Neapolitan: appusàto, abbasato, sàzio
• Norwegian: klok (no), vis (no)
• Polish: mądry (pl), rozumny (pl)
• Portuguese: sábio (pt), sapiente (pt)
• Romanian: înțelept (ro)
• Russian: му́дрый (ru) (múdryj)
• Scottish Gaelic: glic
• Slovak: múdry
• Slovene: moder (sl)
• Spanish: sabio (es)
• Turkish: bilge (tr)
• Ukrainian: мудрий (mudryj)

Noun

sage (plural sages)

1. A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press (1973), 34:

     We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage.

Synonyms

• (wise person): See Thesaurus:sage

Derived terms

• sagely
• sageness
• sage on the stage
• Seven Sages

 

Related terms

• sagacious
• sagacity

 

Translations

wise person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哲人 (zh) (zhérén), 智者 (zh), 圣人 (zh)

• Cornish: dooth m
• Czech: mudrc (cs) m
• Dutch: wijze (nl) m
• Finnish: tietäjä (fi)
• French: sage (fr) m
• Georgian: ბრძენი (ka) (brʒeni)
• German: Weiser (de) m, Weise (de) f
• Greek: σοφός (el) m (sofós)

  Ancient: σοφός m (sophós)

• Hindi: ऋषि (hi) m (ŕṣi), गुरु (hi) m (guru)
• Hungarian: bölcs (hu)
• Irish: fáidh m, saoi m, eagnaí m
• Italian: saggio (it), savio (it)
• Japanese: 賢人 (けんじん, kenjin), 哲人 (てつじん, tetsujin), 賢者 (けんじゃ, kenja)
• Latin: sophus m
• Macedonian: му́дрец m (múdrec)

• Manx: dooinney creeney m
• Maori: ruānuku (man), hīnātore, wānanga
• Neapolitan: appusàto, abbasato, sàzio
• Ngarrindjeri: mooncumbulli
• Norwegian: vismann m
• Persian: کندا‎ (fa) (kondâ), رد‎ (fa) (rad)
• Polish: mędrzec (pl)
• Portuguese: sábio (pt) m
• Quechua: amawt'a
• Russian: мудре́ц (ru) m (mudréc)
• Sanskrit: कवि (sa) m (kavi)
• Slovene: modrec m
• Spanish: sabio (es) m
• Tagalog: pantas (tl)
• Turkish: bilge (tr)
• Ukrainian: мудрець (mudrecʹ)

See also

• rishi
• maharishi

Etymology 2

Sage leaves

From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe.

Noun

sage (uncountable)

1. The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
2. Any plant in the genus Salvia
3. Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic.

Derived terms

• white sage (Salvia apiana)
• annual sage (Salvia carduaceae; Salvia hispanica)
• autumn sage (Salvia greggii)
• ball sage (Salvia mellifera
• bee sage (Hyptis emoryi, Salvia apiana)
• Bengal sage (Meriandra bengalensis)
• Bethlehem sage (Pulmonaria saccharata)
• blue sage (Eranthemum pulchellum, Salvia spp.)
• broom sage (species of Chrysothamnus, Ericameria, Lorandersonia)
• bud sage (Artemisia spinescens)
• bur sage (Franseria spp., esp. Franseria dumosa)
• button sage (Salvia mellifera)
• California sage (Artemisia californica)
• chaparral sage (Saliva leucophylla)
• cherry sage (Salvia greggii)
• clary sage (Salvia sclarea)
• common sage (Salvia officinalis)
• crimson sage (Ramona grandiflora)
• desert sage (Salvia eremostachya)
• diviner's sage (Salvia divinorum)
• flat sage
• French sage (Phlomis spp.)
• garden sage (Salvia officinalis)
• germander sage (Teuchrium scordium)
• hummingbird sage (Ramona grandiflora)
• Indian sage (Eupatorium)
• Jerusalem sage (Phlomis spp.)
• lambsleaf sage (Salvia reflexa)
• lanceleaf sage (Salvia reflexa)
• lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata)
• meadow sage (Salvia pratensis)
• mealy sage (Salvia farinacea)
• mountain sage)
• pineapple sage (Salvia elegans)
• pitcher sage (Lepechinia spp., Salvia spatheca)
• prairie sage (Artemisia gnaphalodes)
• purple sage (Salvia leucophylla; Artemisia tridentata)
• red sage (Lantana camara; Kochia)
• Rocky Mountain sage (Salvia reflexa)
• rose sage (Salvia eremostachya)
• Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
• sagebrush (Artemisia spp., esp. Artemisia tridentata)
• Sage Derby
• sage dog
• sage green
• sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
• sage mint (Salvia reflexa)
• sage tea
• sage thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus)
• sand sage (Salvia eremostachya)
• scarlet sage (Salvia splendens, Salvia coccinea; Artemisia cana)
• silver sage/silvery sage (Salvia leucophylla; Artemisia tridentata)
• Spanish sage (Salvia lavansdulaefolia)
• Texas sage
• thistle sage (Salvia carduaceae)
• tropical sage
• vervain sage (Salvia verbenaca)
• wand sage (Salvia vaseyi, Salvia virgata)
• western sage (Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana)
• white-leaved sage (Salvia leucophylla)
• wild sage
• wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia)
• wormwood sage (Artemisia frigida)
• yellow sage (Lantana camara)

 

Translations

Salvia officinalis

• Albanian: sherbelë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَرْيَمِيَّة‎ f (maryamiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: مرمية‎ f (meramiya)

• Armenian: եղեսպակ (hy) (ełespak)
• Azerbaijani: adaçayı
• Basque: salbia
• Catalan: sàlvia f
• Central Sierra Miwok: hukúˀme-
• Cherokee: ᏎᏥ ᏒᏟ (setsi svtli)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鼠尾草 (syu² mei⁵ cou²)

  Mandarin: 鼠尾草 (zh) (shǔwěicǎo)

• Czech: šalvěj (cs) f
• Dutch: salie (nl) m
• Estonian: salvei
• Finnish: salvia (fi)
• French: sauge (fr) f
• Georgian: სალბი (salbi)
• German: Salbei (de) m
• Greek: φασκομηλιά (el) f (faskomiliá)

  Ancient: ὅρμινον n (hórminon)

• Hebrew: מרווה‎ (marva)
• Hungarian: zsálya (hu)
• Irish: sáiste
• Italian: salvia (it) f
• Japanese: セージ (ja) (sēji)
• Korean: 세이지 (seiji)

• Latin: salvia f
• Ligurian: sàrvia f
• Macedonian: жа́лфија f (žálfija)
• Neapolitan: sàrvia
• Norman: sauge f (Jersey)
• Northern Ohlone: miriyan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salvie m

  Nynorsk: salvie m or f

• Old English: salfige f
• Persian: سلوی‎ (fa) (salvi), مریم گلی‎ (maryam-goli)
• Polish: szałwia (pl) f, szałwia lekarska
• Portuguese: sálvia (pt) f, salva (pt) f (Portugal)
• Quechua: ñukch'u
• Romanian: salvie (ro) f, jale (ro) f
• Russian: шалфе́й (ru) m (šalféj)
• Scottish Gaelic: sàiste f
• Serbo-Croatian: žalfija (sh) f, kadulja (sh) f
• Slovak: šalvia (sk) f
• Slovene: žajbelj (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žalbija f

• Spanish: salvia f
• Swedish: kryddsalvia, salvia (sv) c
• Tagalog: salbiya
• Turkish: ada çayı (tr), dağ çayı (tr)
• Ukrainian: шавлія (šavlija)
• Zazaki: gula meryem

Salvia officinalis used in cooking

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鼠尾草 (syu² mei⁵ cou²)

  Mandarin: 鼠尾草 (zh) (shǔwěicǎo)

• Czech: šalvěj (cs) f
• Finnish: salvia
• German: Salbei (de) m
• Greek: φασκόμηλο (el) n (faskómilo)
• Irish: sáiste f

• Italian: salvia (it) f
• Japanese: セージ (ja) (sēji)
• Latin: salvia f
• Ligurian: sàrvia f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žalbija f

• Swedish: salvia (sv) c
• Tagalog: salbiya

plant of the genus Salvia

• Finnish: salvia

See also

• salvia

Further reading

• Salvia officinalis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Salvia officinalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Japanese sage, from Japanese 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.

Pronunciation

• Etymologically /sɑɡɛ/, but often /seɪdʒ/ due to its English homograph.

Interjection

sage

1. (Internet slang) Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.

   sage in all fields

Related terms

• age

Verb

sage (third-person singular simple present sages, present participle saging, simple past and past participle saged)

1. (Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.

   Reminder to sage and report.

Derived terms

• polite sage

Usage notes

• This word is specific to imageboards. The original purpose of sage is to not bump a thread if one deems another's (often OP's) own post to be of little value.

Anagrams

• Sega, ages, geas, sega

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• san, son (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German sagēn, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaːɣə/

Verb

sage (third-person singular present tense sät, past tense sat or sät, past participle jesat or jesät)

1. (Ripuarian) to say; to tell

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch saghe, from Old Dutch *saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

sage f (plural sagen)

1. story of heraldry and valor, a saga.

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakeda.

Adjective

sage (genitive sageda, partitive sagedat)

1. frequent

Declension

Inflection of sage (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	sage	sagedad
accusative	sageda	sagedad
genitive	sageda	sagedate
partitive	sagedat	sagedaid
illative	sagedasse	sagedatesse sagedaisse
inessive	sagedas	sagedates sagedais
elative	sagedast	sagedatest sagedaist
allative	sagedale	sagedatele sagedaile
adessive	sagedal	sagedatel sagedail
ablative	sagedalt	sagedatelt sagedailt
translative	sagedaks	sagedateks sagedaiks
terminative	sagedani	sagedateni
essive	sagedana	sagedatena
abessive	sagedata	sagedateta
comitative	sagedaga	sagedatega

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French

Etymology

From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʒ/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʒ

Adjective

sage (plural sages)

1. (of a person) wise: prudent, cautious, and judicious
2. (of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct
3. (of a child) Good, well-behaved, not naughty

Derived terms

• sage comme une image

Noun

sage m or f (plural sages)

1. A person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious
2. A sage (person)

Further reading

• “sage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ages, âges, âgés

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaːɡə/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

sage

1. First-person singular present of sagen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of sagen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of sagen.
4. Imperative singular of sagen.

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Hausa

Verb

sagḕ (grade 4)

1. to become stiff or paralyzed

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Latin

Adjective

sāge

1. vocative masculine singular of sāgus

Noun

sage m

1. singular vocative of sagus

Noun

sage n

1. singular vocative of sagum

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from sapiō. Some forms have been altered on the basis of other words with forms in -a- and -au-.

Alternative forms

• sauge, sawge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːdʒ(ə)/

Noun

sage (plural sages)

1. A sage; a person who serves as a fount of wisdom and knowledge.

Descendants

• English: sage
• Scots: sage

References

• “sāǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Adjective

sage

1. Sage, considered, well thought-out.
2. Learned, schooled, educated; having much knowledge.

Descendants

• English: sage
• Scots: sage

References

• “sāǧe (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French sauge.

Noun

sage

1. Alternative form of sauge

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from Latin sapiō, sapere (“to taste; to discern; to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”).

Adjective

sage m or f

1. (Jersey) wise

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sage (imperative sag, present tense sager, simple past saga or saget or sagde, past participle saga or saget or sagd, present participle sagende)

1. to saw (cut something with a saw)

Related terms

• sag (noun)

References

• “sage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapius from the Classical Latin verb sapiō.

Adjective

sage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sage)

1. wise (having wisdom)

Descendants

• English: sage
• French: sage
• Italian: saggio

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Sathmar Swabian

Etymology

From Old High German sagēn, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.

Verb

sage

1. to say

References

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)