sagma

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma, pack saddle), from σάττω (sáttō, to stuff, press, pack).

Pronunciation

Noun

(Late Latin) sagma f (genitive sagmae); first declension

  1. pack saddle (for carrying goods on the back of a horse or other animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

From the variant sauma:

  • Franco-Provençal: sôma, sauma
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Ligurian: sòma
    • Piedmontese: sòma
  • Italo-Dalmatian
  • Oïl:
  • Occitano-Romance
  • Proto-West Germanic: *saum (see there for further descendants)
  • Basque: zama

From the variant salma:

  • Italo-Dalmatian
  • Occitano-Romance

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

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.