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Latin
Etymology
saxum + -eus
Pronunciation
Adjective
saxeus (feminine saxea, neuter saxeum); first/second-declension adjective
- rocky, stony
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- Portuguese: sáxeo (borrowing)
References
- “saxeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saxeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saxeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.