sagma

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sagma f (genitive sagmae); first declension

1. saddle (of a pack-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

• Vulgar Latin: *salma
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Italian: salma
    • Sicilian: sarma
  • Occitano-Romance
    • Catalan: salma
  • ⇒ Late Latin: 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
• → Basque: zama
• → Proto-West Germanic: *saum (see there for further descendants)

References

• “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