saxum

De Vaan rejects any connections with Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), leaving it as unknown. This is due to the presence of the vowel a in the Latin word, reasoning that to obtain that vowel in that position, a laryngeal must be posited. The root *sek- does not have a laryngeal, ruling out a Proto-Indo-European derivation.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.sum/, [ˈsak.sũ]

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saxum n (genitive saxī); second declension

1. stone, rock (a large, rough fragment of rock)
   • Aaron Stone, season 1 episode 16:

     Responsum est sub saxo.

     The answer is under the rock.

2. (by extension) wall of stone

Second declension.

• (a stone): lapis, petra

• saxum volvō

• Galician: seixo
• Istriot: sasso
• Italian: sasso
• Ligurian: sàscio
• Portuguese: seixo
• Spanish: sajo, saxo

• saxum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• saxum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saxum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• saxum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • steep rocks: saxa praerupta
    
  • the rocks re-echo: saxa voci respondent or resonant
    
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
  • to throw some one down the Tarpeian rock: deicere aliquem de saxo Tarpeio
    
• saxum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press