seges

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seg- (“to attach, to touch”). Compare Proto-Germanic *sankilaz (“lace, tie”) and Sanskrit सजति (sájati, “to cling to”).

Pronunciation

Noun

seges f (genitive segetis); third declension

  1. a cornfield
  2. (by extension) the standing corn, growing corn, crop
  3. (by extension) a field, ground, soil; arable land
  4. (figuratively) a crop, fruit, produce, result, profit
  5. (figuratively) a thicket, forest, multitude

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative seges segetēs
Genitive segetis segetum
Dative segetī segetibus
Accusative segetem segetēs
Ablative segete segetibus
Vocative seges segetēs

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • segetālis
  • Segetia

References
  • seges in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • seges in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • seges in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • seges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
  • Pokorny, 2405

Middle English

Noun

seges

  1. plural of sege
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