sagum

English

Etymology

From Latin sagum, sagus, from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos), perhaps of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish origin.

Noun

sagum (plural sagums or saga)

1. (historical) A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.

Translations

cloak worn by Gallic, Germanic and Roman soldiers

• French: sayon (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: sago m

Anagrams

• gaums, magus

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Latin

Etymology 1

From earlier sagus, from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos, “cloak”, “coat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡum/, [ˈs̠äɡʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡum/, [ˈsäːɡum]

Noun

sagum n (genitive sagī); second declension

1. sagum, a military cloak
2. singular accusative of sagum
3. singular vocative of sagum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sagum	saga
Genitive	sagī	sagōrum
Dative	sagō	sagīs
Accusative	sagum	saga
Ablative	sagō	sagīs
Vocative	sagum	saga

Derived terms

• sagulum

Descendants

• Asturian: saya
• French: saie, sayon
• Galician: saia, saio
• Portuguese: saia
• Spanish: saya

References

• “sagum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sagum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sagum 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)
• sagum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sagum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sagum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 2

Noun

(deprecated template usage) sagum m

1. singular accusative of sagus

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.ɡum/, [ˈs̠äːɡʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡum/, [ˈsäːɡum]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) sāgum

1. singular masculine accusative of sāgus
2. singular neuter nominative of sāgus
3. singular neuter accusative of sāgus
4. singular neuter vocative of sāgus