saxum
Latin

saxum (a stone, rock)
Etymology
De Vaan rejects any connections with Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), leaving it as unknown. This is due to the presence of the vowel a in the Latin word, reasoning that to obtain that vowel in that position, a laryngeal must be posited. The root *sek- does not have a laryngeal, ruling out a Proto-Indo-European derivation.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsak.sum/, [ˈsak.sũ]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
saxum n (genitive saxī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | saxum | saxa |
Genitive | saxī | saxōrum |
Dative | saxō | saxīs |
Accusative | saxum | saxa |
Ablative | saxō | saxīs |
Vocative | saxum | saxa |
Derived terms
- saxum volvō
Related terms
Descendants
References
- saxum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- saxum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saxum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- saxum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- steep rocks: saxa praerupta
- the rocks re-echo: saxa voci respondent or resonant
- to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
- to throw some one down the Tarpeian rock: deicere aliquem de saxo Tarpeio
- steep rocks: saxa praerupta
- saxum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “saxum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 541
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