Sage

• As an English and French surname, from sage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with the sage plant. Compare Desage, Lesage.
• As an Irish surname, variant of Savage.
• As a German surname, from a placename derived from the noun sege (“sedge”) (see sedge).

Sage (countable and uncountable, plural Sages)

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A male given name from English.
   • 1974, Alison Lurie, The War Between the Tates: A Novel, Open Road Media, published 2012, →ISBN:

     She wanted to give the child a unique, meaningful name; among those she and Linda liked, she said, were Laurel and Lavender. Or if it was a boy, perhaps Sage . “Why not Spinach or Cabbage?” Brian had scoffed.

3. A female given name from English.
4. (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, older than a middle-aged Father and boyish Master
5. A place name:
   1. A neighbourhood along Trout Lake Road, city of North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
   2. An unincorporated community in Izard County, Arkansas, United States.
   3. A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in Burnet County, Texas, United States.
   5. A ghost town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States.

• Sega, ages, geas, sega

From Middle High German sage, from Old High German saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaː.ɡə/

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Sage f (genitive Sage, plural Sagen)

1. saga, legend, myth, story, tale

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