sane

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”). Doublet of sound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɪn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: sain, Seine (one pronunciation)

Adjective

sane (comparative saner, superlative sanest)

1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.

   a sane mind

2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.

   a sane person

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:

     Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
     Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
     Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
     Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.

3. Rational; reasonable; sensible.

   Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.

Synonyms

• (possessing mental faculties): in one's right mind, play with a full deck
• See also Thesaurus:sane.

Antonyms

• insane
• crazy
• unbalanced
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Derived terms

• sanely

Related terms

• (being healthy): sanity, mental health
• (possessing mental faculties): compos mentis, right-minded

Translations

See also

• nome sane (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• ENSA, Esan, NAEs, NESA, Nase, Sean, Sena, eans, nase, sean

Ajië

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adjective

sane

1. bad

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: sa‧ne

Adverb

sane

1. healthily

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

sane

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

sana (“word”) +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑneˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑne
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧ne

Noun

sane

1. (linguistics) vocable (word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning)
2. word token

Declension

Further reading

• “sane”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• Esan

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: sà‧ne

Adjective

sane f pl

1. feminine plural of sano

Anagrams

• anse

Japanese

Romanization

sane

1. Rōmaji transcription of さね

Latin

Etymology 1

sānus (“healthy; sane”) +‎ -ē (adverb formant)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.neː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/,

Adverb

sānē (comparative sānius, superlative sānissimē)

1. soundly, healthily, well
2. soberly, sensibly, reasonably, discreetly
3. (by extension) yes, truly, indeed; certainly, right, really; quite, very

   Synonym: valde

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.ne/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/,

Adjective

sāne

1. vocative masculine singular of sānus

References

• “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    
• “sane”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “sane”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Verb

sane

1. inflection of sanar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

sane

1. inflection of sanar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative