sax

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See also: SAX and Sax.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of zax.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
  2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.

Verb

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

  1. (transitive, British dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. Clipping of saxophone.

Anagrams

Aleut

Noun

sax

  1. bird skin coat

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

Noun

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. sax, short sword, dagger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

Noun

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. (informal) sax, saxophone
    Synonym: saxofoon

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. a knife (tool)
  2. a knife (weapon)

Descendants

  • English: sax; zax
  • Scots: saks; sax (verb) (through confluence with Norse form)

References

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

sax

  1. alive
  2. healthy
  3. whole

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

sax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)

  1. a oneedged sword, a backsword
  2. (plural only) shears

Declension

  Declension of sax (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sax saxit sǫx sǫxin
accusative sax saxit sǫx sǫxin
dative saxi saxinu sǫxum sǫxunum
genitive sax saxins saxa saxanna

Derived terms

  • saxa (“to cut with a 'sax'”)
  • saxknífr m (“dagger, dirk”)
  • saxoddr m (“the point of a 'sax”)
  • saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: sax n
  • Faroese: saksur m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saks f
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saks m or f
  • Swedish: sax c
  • Danish: saks c

References

“sax”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sex, byform of six.

Pronunciation

Numeral

cardinal number
6 Previous: five
Next: seiven

sax

  1. six

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫx (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax c

  1. a pair of scissors; shears
  2. short of saxofon
  3. a trap for animals

Declension

Declension of sax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sax saxen saxar saxarna
Genitive sax saxens saxars saxarnas

References

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