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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sānctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancīre (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Doublet of Sanctus. Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).

Noun

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Francis of Assisi, a Catholic saint.

saint (plural saints)

  1. (religion, generally) A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
    The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012.
  2. (Christianity) One of the blessed in heaven.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 742–744:
      Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure / Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount / Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing,
  3. (Christianity) A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.
  4. (Mormonism, specifically) Alternative letter-case form of Saint (“a Mormon, a Latter-day Saint”).
  5. (figuratively, by extension) A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.
    Dorothy Day was a living saint.
    Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!
  6. (archaic) A holy object.
Alternative forms
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Synonyms
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  • (holy person): hallow (obsolete)
Hyponyms
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  • (holy person): holy man (male, nondenominational); arhat (Buddhism); sage (East Asia and philosophical sects); immortal (Taoism); wali (Islamic saint); casis (Islamic saint, historical); sultan (Turkish Sufi saint); martyr (person revered for sacrificing their life for a cause, sometimes inclusive of secular reverence by nations or political parties); confessor (Christian saints other than martyrs); san (male Christian saint in Spanish contexts, usu. as a title); santa (female Christian saint in Spanish contexts, usu. as a title); sainte (female Christian saint in French contexts, usu. as a title)
Derived terms
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See also the lists of derived terms at Saint and St
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Translations
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See also
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).

Verb

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saint (third-person singular simple present saints, present participle sainting, simple past and past participle sainted)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.
    Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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    From Latin sanctus (“holy”).

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    Noun

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    saint m (plural saints, feminine sainte)

    1. a male saint; masculine of sainte

    Adjective

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    saint (feminine sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)

    1. saintly (all meanings); holy

    Derived terms

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    - in Belgian toponyms:

    - in Canadian toponyms:

    - In French toponyms:

    - In toponyms of French Guiana:

    - In Guadeloupean toponyms:

    - In Italian toponyms:

    - In toponyms of Martinique:

    - In toponyms of Réunion:

    - In Swiss toponyms:

    Descendants

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    • Haitian Creole: sen

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    Irish

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Old Irish sant, of uncertain origin; cognate with Manx saynt and Scottish Gaelic sannt. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *hwant (the source of Welsh chwant (“desire”)),[2] from Proto-Celtic *swantos, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of *swantos is sét (whence séad (“a valuable”) and seoid (“jewel”)). Against this hypothesis is the fact that Old Irish sét and Welsh chwant are masculine, while Old Irish sant and its descendants are feminine.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    saint f (genitive singular sainte)

    1. greed, avarice, covetousness
    2. great eagerness, desire

    Declension

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    Declension of saint (second declension, no plural)
    bare forms
    singular
    nominative saint
    vocative a shaint
    genitive sainte
    dative saint
    forms with the definite article
    singular
    nominative an tsaint
    genitive na sainte
    dative leis an tsaint
    don tsaint

    Synonyms

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    Mutation

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    Mutated forms of saint
    radical lenition eclipsis
    saint shaint
    after an, tsaint     		not applicable

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

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    1. ^ “saint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
    2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
    3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
    4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 43

    Further reading

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    • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “sainnt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 588
    • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “saint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

    Middle English

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    Noun

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    saint

    1. (Ayenbite) alternative form of seynt

    Norman

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    Etymology

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    From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).

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    Adjective

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    saint m

    1. (Jersey) holy

    Noun

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    saint m (plural saints)

    1. (Jersey, religion) saint

    Old French

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Latin sanctus

    Noun

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    saint oblique singular, m (oblique plural sainz or saintz, nominative singular sainz or saintz, nominative plural saint)

    1. saint

    Declension

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    Case masculine feminine
    singular subject sainz sainte
    oblique saint sainte
    plural subject saint saintes
    oblique sainz saintes

    Adjective

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    saint m (feminine sainte)

    1. holy
    2. pious; devout

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    Welsh

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    Noun

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    saint m pl (not mutable)

    1. plural of sant
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