Noun: saxum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | saxī |
| Plural | saxōrum |
Sample Sentences
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Aaron Stone, season 1 episode 16:
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Respōnsum est sub saxō.
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The answer is under the rock.
Nouns inflected like saxum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *saksom, further derivation uncertain. The American Heritage Dictionary tentiatively connects it to Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife”)), with a semantic shift from "broken-off piece" to "rock". De Vaan rejects this 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 (that is, the root would have to be **sh₂k-) and that a semantic connection between "rock" and "knife" (as seen in Germanic) is difficult.
Verbs referencing "saxum"
Galician Nouns
seixo, Portuguese Nouns
seixo.
Translations