sagma

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Latin

Alternative forms

sauma, salma
somma, suma, summa (Medieval)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma, “pack-saddle”), from σάττω (sáttō, “to stuff, press, pack”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

Noun

(Late Latin) sagma f (genitive sagmae); first declension

pack-saddle (for carrying goods on the back of a horse or other animal)
(Medieval Latin) a load able to be carried on or by a pack-saddle or packhorse
1. (commonly used as a unit of measurement)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sagma	sagmae
genitive	sagmae	sagmārum
dative	sagmae	sagmīs
accusative	sagmam	sagmās
ablative	sagmā	sagmīs
vocative	sagma	sagmae

Derived terms

sagmārius

Descendants

From the variant sauma:

Franco-Provençal: sôma, sauma
Gallo-Italic
- Ligurian: sòma
- Piedmontese: sòma
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: soma
Oïl:
- Old French: some
  - French: somme
Occitano-Romance
- Occitan: sauma
→ Proto-West Germanic: *saum (see there for further descendants)
→ Basque: zama

From the variant salma:

Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: salma
- Sicilian: sarma
Occitano-Romance
- Catalan: salma

References

R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “sagma”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “salma”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

“sagma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"sagma", 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)
sagma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“sagma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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