sagma

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡ.ma/, [ˈs̠äɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡ.ma/, [ˈsäɡmä]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	sagma	sagmae
genitive	sagmae	sagmārum
dative	sagmae	sagmīs
accusative	sagmam	sagmās
ablative	sagmā	sagmīs
vocative	sagma	sagmae

Derived terms

• sagmārius

Descendants

From the variant sauma:

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

From the variant salma:

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: salma
  • Sicilian: sarma
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: salma

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