sax

• IPA^(key): /sæks/

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• Homophones: sacks, Sacks, Sachs, Sax
• Rhymes: -æks

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

sax (plural saxes)

1. A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

1. (transitive, British dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

sax (plural saxes)

1. Clipping of saxophone.

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

1. To play the saxophone

• ASX, XAS

sax

1. bird skin coat

• IPA^(key): /sɑks/
• Hyphenation: sax
• Rhymes: -ɑks
• Homophone: Sax

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

1. sax, short sword, dagger

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

1. (informal) sax, saxophone

   Synonym: saxofoon

Learned borrowing from Old Norse sax. Doublet of saksa, Saksa, sakset, saksi (“claw”), saksi (“Saxon”), Saksi, and seax.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑks/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝ks̠]

sax

1. (historical) seax (a type of sword)

   Synonyms: seax, viikinkimiekka

• sexe, sex, sæx, seax

From Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.

• IPA^(key): /saks/
• Rhymes: -aks

sax (plural saxes)

1. a knife (tool)
2. a knife (weapon)

• English: sax; zax
• Scots: saks; sax (verb) (through confluence with Norse form)

• “sax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

sax

1. alive
2. healthy
3. whole

From Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

sax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)

1. a one-edged sword, a backsword
2. (plural only) shears

• saxa (“to cut with a 'sax'”)
• saxknífr m (“dagger, dirk”)
• saxoddr m (“the point of a 'sax”)

• saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

“sax”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Middle English sex, byform of six.

• IPA^(key): /saks/

sax

1. six

• saxt (“sixth”)

From Old Norse sǫx (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

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sax c

1. a pair of scissors; shears
2. a trap for animals

• → Finnish: sakset pl, saksi sg

Clipping of saxofon, attested since 1934.

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sax c

1. short of saxofon

• altsax
• saxsektion
• tenorsax

• sax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)