seax
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.
Pronunciation
Noun
seax (plural seaxes)
- (historical) A short Saxon sword.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:
- The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.
- 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
- It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […] .
Translations
short Saxon sword
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
seax
- Alternative form of sax
Old English
Alternative forms
- sex — West Saxon
- syx, sex
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą. Compare Old English sagu, seċġ.
Pronunciation
Noun
seax n
Declension
Declension of seax (strong a-stem)