sartago

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Particularly: “A term of unclear origin, with virtually no studies performed on it.

The Irish priest James Byrne provides one of the only attempts at finding an etymology for this word in his Origin of the Greek, Latin, and Gothic roots, linking the word to serēscō (“to dry off”), due to many forms of heat-based cooking involving evaporating moisture out of food.[1] However, Byrne does not seem to have been a linguist and does not explain the morphological relation, and additionally thought these words were linked by "friction" rather than "dryness", so this etymology is suspect.

Another Latin word that Byrne proposes as cognate is sarriō (“to hoe”). The phonetics are a bit closer than serēscō, and semantically, frying pans have a flat surface like the flat blades of hoes as well as the action of flipping food inside a frying pan being vaguely hoe-like.

The word seems semantically somewhat similar to Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (“to be dry”), though the Indo-European root is otherwise unattested in Italic. Another word it resembles is sartor (“mender, tailor”), which is semantically quite far away.

The term could very well be of substrate origin as well.”

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sartāgō f (genitive sartāginis); third declension

  1. (Later Latin) frying pan
    Synonyms: frīxōrium, frīctōrium, fretāle
  2. (figuratively) mixture, medley

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sartāgō sartāginēs
Genitive sartāginis sartāginum
Dative sartāginī sartāginibus
Accusative sartāginem sartāginēs
Ablative sartāgine sartāginibus
Vocative sartāgō sartāginēs

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • “sartago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sartago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sartago 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)
  • sartago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “sartago”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “sartago”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sartāgo”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 573
  1. ^ https://archive.org/details/originofgreeklat00byrn/page/210/mode/2up
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