Sage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- 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).
Proper noun
[edit]Sage (countable and uncountable, plural Sages)
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- 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.
- A female given name from English.
- (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, older than a middle-aged Father and boyish Master
- A place name:
- A neighbourhood along Trout Lake Road, city of North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Izard County, Arkansas, United States.
- A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Burnet County, Texas, United States.
- A ghost town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German sage, from Old High German saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sage f (genitive Sage, plural Sagen)
- saga, legend, myth, story, tale
- 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
- Und der weise Greis, mein Meister, gab mir seinen Segen, daß ich Euch aus jenem wunderbaren, mit Unzialschrift geschriebenen Buche einige Gleichnisse, Geschichten und Sagen erzähle.
- And the wise old man, my master, gave me his blessing to tell you some parables, stories, and legends from that wonderful book written in uncial script.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Sage [feminine]
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- English unisex given names
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (say)
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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