sagma

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma), from σάττω (sáttō, “to stuff, press, pack”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡ.ma/, [ˈs̠äɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡ.ma/, [ˈsäɡmä]

Noun

sagma f (genitive sagmae); first declension

1. saddle (of a pack-animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sagma	sagmae
Genitive	sagmae	sagmārum
Dative	sagmae	sagmīs
Accusative	sagmam	sagmās
Ablative	sagmā	sagmīs
Vocative	sagma	sagmae

Derived terms

• sagmārius

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *salma:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: salma
    • Sicilian: sarma
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: salma
  • ⇒ Late Latin: sauma:
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: soma
    • North Italian:
      • Ligurian: sòma
      • Piedmontese: sòma
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: sôma, sauma
      • Old French: some
        • French: somme
    • Occitano-Romance:
      • Occitan: sauma
• Borrowings:
  • → Basque: zama
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *saum (see there for further descendants)

References

• “sagma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sagma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sagma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sagma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers