sax

• IPA^(key): /sæks/
• Homophones: sacks, Sacks
• 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-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with North Frisian sax (“knife, sword”), Middle Dutch sas (“knife”), Middle Low German sax (“knife”), Middle High German sahs (“a knife”), Danish saks (“a pair of scissors”), Swedish sax (“a pair of scissors”), Icelandic sax (“a short heavy sword”), Latin secō (“cut”). See also Saxon, saw.

sax (plural saxes)

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

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

1. (transitive, Britain 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.

• 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

sax (comparative {{{1}}}, superlative {{{2}}})

1. alive
2. healthy
3. whole

• sexe, sex, sæx, seax

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

• IPA^(key): /saks/
• Rhymes: -aks

sax (plural saxes or saxen)

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

• English: sax, zax

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

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

sax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)

1. a oneedged sword, a backsword
2. (plural only) shears

• saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

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

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

From Middle English sex, byform of six, from Old English siex, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

• 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. short of saxofon
3. a trap for animals

• altsax
• björnsax
• bultsax
• fårsax
• häcksax
• kökssax
• ljussax
• nagelsax
• plåtsax
• rävsax
• saxa
• saxfiske
• saxning
• saxnäbb
• saxsektion
• saxskänkel
• saxskär
• saxsprint
• sysax
• tenorsax
• trädgårdssax
• ullsax

• sax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)