sagina

See also: Sagina

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sagina (“feasting, nourishment, corpulence”).

Noun

sagina (plural saginas)

1. Any herb of the genus Sagina.

Anagrams

• Gaians, Nagais, Nisga'a

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈɡiː.na/, [s̠äˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈd͡ʒi.na/, [säˈd͡ʒiːnä]

Noun

sagīna f (genitive sagīnae); first declension

1. feasting, nourishment
2. corpulence

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• sagīnārium
• sagīnātiō
• sagīnātus
• sagīnō

Descendants

• Old French: sain
  • ⇒ French: saindoux
  • → Galician: saín
  • → Spanish: saín

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sagīnā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sagīnō

References

• “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.