sagina

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Etymology

From Latin sagina (feasting, nourishment, corpulence).

Noun

sagina (plural saginas)

  1. Any herb of the genus Sagina.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (to satisfy), source of Proto-Germanic *sadaz (full).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

sagīna f (genitive sagīnae); first declension

  1. feasting, nourishment
  2. corpulence

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sagīna sagīnae
genitive sagīnae sagīnārum
dative sagīnae sagīnīs
accusative sagīnam sagīnās
ablative sagīnā sagīnīs
vocative sagīna sagīnae

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

sagīnā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sagīnō

References

  • sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sagina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN