Saxon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
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.
Inflected forms:
form: Saxons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Saxon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Saxon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
pos: noun
examples: Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
pos: noun
examples: [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
gloss: An English/British person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Wales
poetic
examples: Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
gloss: A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
rare
uncountable
gloss: A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
pos: adj
examples: But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
gloss: Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
Wales
poetic
examples: He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.
Derived words: Nether-Saxon
Saxondom
Transylvanian Saxon
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: sakson
lang: Arabic
word: سَكْسُونِيّ
roman: saksūniyy
lang: Asturian
word: saxón
lang: Belarusian
word: саксо́нскі
roman: saksónski
lang: Bulgarian
word: саксо́нски
roman: saksónski
lang: Catalan
word: saxó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 撒克遜 /撒克逊
roman: sākèxùn
lang: Czech
word: saský
lang: Danish
word: saksisk
lang: Dutch
word: Saksisch
lang: Farefare
word: saksɔn
lang: Faroese
word: saksiskur
lang: Finnish
word: saksilainen
lang: Finnish
word: saksi-
lang: French
word: saxon
lang: Friulian
word: sasson
lang: German
word: sächsisch
lang: Greek
word: σαξονικός
roman: saxonikós
lang: Hungarian
word: szász
lang: Italian
word: sassone
lang: Japanese
word: サクソン
roman: sakuson
lang: Korean
word: 색슨
roman: saekseun
lang: Latvian
word: sakšu
lang: Lithuanian
word: saksų
lang: Macedonian
word: саксонски
roman: saksonski
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: saksisk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: saksisk
lang: Occitan
word: saxon
lang: Old English
word: Seaxisċ
lang: Old Norse
word: saxlenzkr
lang: Old Norse
word: saxneskr
lang: Polish
word: saksoński
lang: Polish
word: saski
lang: Portuguese
word: saxão
lang: Portuguese
word: saxônio
lang: Portuguese
word: saxônico
lang: Romanian
word: saxon
lang: Romanian
word: saxonic
lang: Russian
word: саксо́нский
roman: saksónskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: са̀ксо̄нскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sàksōnskī
lang: Slovak
word: saský
lang: Slovene
word: saški
lang: Spanish
word: sajón
lang: Swedish
word: saxisk
lang: Swedish
word: sachsisk
lang: Thai
word: แซกซัน
lang: Ukrainian
word: саксо́нський
roman: saksónsʹkyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: Sắc