sainfoin

English

sainfoin

Etymology

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/

Noun

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially (syn. ).
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:

     I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

Derived terms

• Spanish sanfoin ()

Translations

perennial herbs

• Esperanto: onobriko
• French: sainfoin (fr) m
• German: Esparsette f
• Ido: esparseto (io)
• Interlingue:
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• Polish: sparceta f
• Portuguese: sanfeno m
• Romanian: sparcetă (ro) f
• Russian: эспарце́т (ru) m (esparcét)
• Spanish: pipirigallo (es) m, esparceta f

Anagrams

• sinfonia

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French

Etymology

From sain + foin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.fwɛ̃/

Noun

sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)

1. sainfoin

   Synonym: fenasse

Further reading

• “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.