English Explanatory Dictionary

Saxon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
  2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
  3. An English/British person.
  4. A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
  5. A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
name
  1. The language of the ancient Saxons.
  2. Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
  3. A surname.
  4. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
  5. A place name:
  6. A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
  8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  9. A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
adj
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
  2. Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
  3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
  4. Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.

Pronunciation

/ˈsæksən/ en-us-Saxon.ogg

Word forms

Saxon Saxons more Saxon most Saxon

Etymology

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

Related words

Anglo-Saxon Friso-Saxon West Saxon Semi-Saxon Scoto-Saxon Old Saxon Middle Saxon New Saxon Upper Saxon Transylvanian Saxon Saxonian

Derived words

Nether-Saxon Saxondom Transylvanian Saxon Saxonist saxonite Saxonic Saxonism Saxonize Saxonly Saxonness

Translations

Albanian: sakson Arabic: سَكْسُونِيّ Asturian: saxón Belarusian: саксо́нскі Bulgarian: саксо́нски Catalan: saxó Chinese Mandarin: 撒克遜 /撒克逊 Czech: saský Danish: saksisk Dutch: Saksisch Farefare: saksɔn Faroese: saksiskur Finnish: saksilainen Finnish: saksi- French: saxon Friulian: sasson German: sächsisch Greek: σαξονικός Hungarian: szász Italian: sassone Japanese: サクソン Korean: 색슨 Latvian: sakšu Lithuanian: saksų Macedonian: саксонски Norwegian Bokmål: saksisk Norwegian Nynorsk: saksisk Occitan: saxon Old English: Seaxisċ Old Norse: saxlenzkr Old Norse: saxneskr Polish: saksoński Polish: saski Portuguese: saxão Portuguese: saxônio Portuguese: saxônico Romanian: saxon Romanian: saxonic Russian: саксо́нский Serbo-Croatian: са̀ксо̄нскӣ Serbo-Croatian: sàksōnskī Slovak: saský Slovene: saški Spanish: sajón Swedish: saxisk Swedish: sachsisk Thai: แซกซัน Ukrainian: саксо́нський
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