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See also: Sage, saĝe, säge, and Säge

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”).

The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.

Adjective

sage (comparative sager, superlative sagest)

  1. Wise.
  2. (obsolete) Grave; serious; solemn.
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Noun

sage (plural sages)

  2. A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
    • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, page 69:
      ’Tis certain, that, while we aſpire to the magnanimous Firmneſs of the philoſophic Sage, and endeavour to confine our Pleaſures altogether within our own Minds, we may, at laſt, render our Philoſophy, like that of Epictetus and other Stoics, only a more refin’d Syſtem of Selfiſhneſs, and reaſon ourſelves out of all Virtue, as well as ſocial Enjoyment.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe. Doublet of salvia.

Noun

sage (usually uncountable, plural sages)

  2. The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
  3. Any plant in the genus Salvia.
    Synonym: salvia
  4. Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic.
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Etymology 3

Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from Japanese 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.

Pronunciation

  • Etymologically /sɑɡɛ/, but often /seɪdʒ/ due to its English homograph.

Interjection

sage

  1. (4chan slang, Internet slang) Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software.
    sage in all fields

Verb

sage (third-person singular simple present sages, present participle saging, simple past and past participle saged)

  1. (4chan slang, Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply.
    Reminder to sage and report.
Derived terms
  • polite sage
Descendants
  • → Finnish: sagettaa

Usage notes

  • This word is specific to imageboards. The original purpose of sage is to not bump a thread if one deems another's (often OP's) own post to be of little value, but has evolved into a show of disrespect.

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German sagen, from Old High German sagēn.

Pronunciation

Verb

sage (third-person singular present tense sät, past tense sat or sät, past participle jesat or jesät)

  1. (Ripuarian) to say; to tell

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch saghe, from Old Dutch *saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sage f (plural sagen)

  1. story of heraldry and valor, a saga

Derived terms

  • heldensage
  • riddersage

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakëda.

Adjective

sage (genitive sageda, partitive sagedat, comparative sagedam, superlative kõige sagedam)

  1. frequent

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation), singular ...
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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French sage, from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapium from the Classical Latin verb sapiō.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sage (plural sages)

  1. (of a person) wise: prudent, cautious, and judicious
  2. (of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct
  3. (of a child) good, well-behaved, not naughty
    Alors, tu vas être sage pour maman dans le magasin ?
    Now, are you going to be good for mommy in the store?

Derived terms

Noun

sage m or f by sense (plural sages)

  1. a person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious
  2. a sage (person)

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German

Pronunciation

Verb

sage

  1. inflection of sagen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sá.ɡèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [sə́.ɟèː]

Verb

sagḕ (grade 4)

  1. to become stiff or paralyzed

Latin

Adjective

sāge

  1. vocative masculine singular of sāgus

Noun

sage m

  1. singular vocative of sagus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from sapiō. Some forms have been altered on the basis of other words with forms in -a- and -au-.

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Pronunciation

Noun

sage (plural sages)

  1. A sage; a person who serves as a fount of wisdom and knowledge.
Descendants
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Adjective

sage

  1. Sage, considered, well thought-out.
  2. Learned, schooled, educated; having much knowledge.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French sauge.

Noun

sage

  1. Alternative form of sauge

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapiō, sapere (“to taste; to discern; to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”).

Adjective

sage m or f

  1. (Jersey) wise
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, pages 541-42:
      Si un houme n'a pas le sens de pâlaïr il est bien sâge s'il a le sens de se taire.
      A man who has not the sense to speak is still a wise man if he has the sense to hold his tongue.
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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sage (imperative sag, present tense sager, simple past saga or saget or sagde, past participle saga or saget or sagd, present participle sagende)

  1. to saw (cut something with a saw)

References

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapium (“wise”), semantically specialized alteration of Latin sapidus (“delicious, wise”). Doublet of sade (“delicious”), from the Latin form.

Adjective

sage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sage)

  1. wise (having wisdom)

Descendants

References

Sathmar Swabian

Etymology

From Old High German sagēn, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.

Verb

sage

  1. to say

References

  • Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

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