seges

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.ɡɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.d͡ʒes]

seges f (genitive segetis); third declension

1. a field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley
2. (by extension) the standing wheat, oats, or barley; growing wheat, etc., crop
3. (by extension) a field, ground, soil; arable land
4. (figuratively) a crop, fruit, produce, result, profit

   Synonyms: frūctus, prōventus, frūx

5. (figuratively) a thicket, forest, multitude

Third-declension noun.

• segetālis
• Segetia

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• seges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
    
• Pokorny, 2405

seges

1. plural of sege