sauge
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See also: säuge
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sauge, from Latin salvia.
Pronunciation
Noun
sauge f (plural sauges)
- sage (Salvia officinalis)
- Synonym: sauge officinale
- Hypernym: sauge
- Hyponyms: sauge à larges feuilles, sauge à petites feuilles
- sage (any plant in the genus Salvia)
- Hypernym: labiée
- Hyponyms: chia, sauge argentée, sauge blanche, sauge candélabre, sauge d’Éthiopie, sauge des prés, sauge glutineuse, sauge hormin, sauge officinale, sauge verticillée, sauge verveine, sclarée
Derived terms
- feuille-de-sauge
- grande sauge
- il n’y a ni sel ni sauge
- petite sauge
- poire de sauge
- sans sel ni sauge
- sauge à larges feuilles
- sauge à petites feuilles
- sauge amère
- sauge argentée
- sauge aztèque
- sauge blanche
- sauge candélabre
- sauge clandestine
- sauge de Jérusalem
- sauge de Provence
- sauge de Turquie
- sauge des bois
- sauge des prés
- sauge du désert
- sauge du Texas
- sauge d’Amérique
- sauge d’Éthiopie
- sauge en arbre
- sauge glutineuse
- sauge hormin
- sauge officinale
- sauge sacrée
- sauge sauvage
- sauge sclarée
- sauge verticillée
- sauge verveine
- vert sauge
Further reading
- “sauge” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “sauge” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “sauge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
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Verb
sauge
- inflection of saugen:
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
sauge (uncountable)
- sage (Salvia officinalis or its product)
- Any plant of the genus Salvia.
Descendants
References
- “sauǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French sage.
Noun
sauge
- Alternative form of sage
Adjective
sauge
- Alternative form of sage
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sauge, from Latin salvia.
Noun
sauge f (uncountable)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
sauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural sauges, nominative singular sauge, nominative plural sauges)
- sage (herb)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (salge, supplement)
- sage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (first entry)