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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”), possibly from *sh₂ey-. Cognate with saepis, saepiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
saepēs f (genitive saepis); third declension
- hedge, fence
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saepes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 878
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “saepes”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563