sauge

See also: säuge

French

Etymology

From Old French sauge, from Latin salvia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soʒ/

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Noun

sauge f (plural sauges)

1. sage (plant)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• auges, suage, usage

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

sauge

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of saugen.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of saugen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of saugen.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of saugen.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia.

Alternative forms

• sage, sawge, sawgge, salge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯dʒ(ə)/, /ˈsaːdʒ(ə)/

Noun

sauge (uncountable)

1. sage (Salvia officinalis or its product)
2. Any plant of the genus Salvia.

Descendants

• English: sage
• Scots: sage

References

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sage.

Noun

sauge

1. Alternative form of sage

Adjective

sauge

1. Alternative form of sage

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French sauge, from Latin salvia.

Noun

sauge f (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) sage (plant)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• sage
• salge
• salvje
• saulge

Etymology

From Latin salvia.

Noun

sauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural sauges, nominative singular sauge, nominative plural sauges)

1. sage (herb)

Descendants

• Middle French: sauge
  • → Middle English: sauge
    • English: sage
    • Scots: sage
  • French: sauge
• Norman: sauge

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (salge, supplement)
• sage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (first entry)