sagma
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma, “pack-saddle”), from σάττω (sáttō, “to stuff, press, pack”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsaɡ.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsaɡ.ma]
Noun
(Late Latin) sagma f (genitive sagmae); first declension
- pack-saddle (for carrying goods on the back of a horse or other animal)
- (Medieval Latin) a load able to be carried on or by a pack-saddle or packhorse
- (commonly used as a unit of measurement)
Declension
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sagma | sagmae |
genitive | sagmae | sagmārum |
dative | sagmae | sagmīs |
accusative | sagmam | sagmās |
ablative | sagmā | sagmīs |
vocative | sagma | sagmae |
Derived terms
Descendants
From the variant sauma:
- Franco-Provençal: sôma, sauma
- Gallo-Italic
- Ligurian: sòma
- Piedmontese: sòma
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: soma
- Oïl:
- Occitano-Romance
- Occitan: sauma
- → Proto-West Germanic: *saum (see there for further descendants)
- → Basque: zama
From the variant salma:
References
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “sagma”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “salma”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
- “sagma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "sagma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sagma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sagma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers