sagitta
See also: Sagitta
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈd͡ʒɪt.ə/
- Rhymes: -ɪtə
Noun
sagitta (plural sagittas or (arrowworm) sagittae)
- The keystone of an arch.
- (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
- (zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.
- Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sagitta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Related terms
- sagittal
Translations
distance from a point in a curve to the chord
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arrowworm
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References
- “sagitta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Latin
Etymology
Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.[1]
A minority view connects it to sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈɡit.ta/, [s̠äˈɡɪt̪ːä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈd͡ʒit.ta/, [säˈd͡ʒit̪ːä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension
- an arrow, shaft, bolt
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.187-188:
- Cōnstitit hīc, arcumque manū celerīsque sagittās
corripuit, fīdus quae tēla gerēbat Achātēs.- [Aeneas] halted here, and grasped in hand his bow and swift arrows, weapons which were being carried by the faithful Achates.
(See: Aeneas; Achates (Aeneid).)
- [Aeneas] halted here, and grasped in hand his bow and swift arrows, weapons which were being carried by the faithful Achates.
- Cōnstitit hīc, arcumque manū celerīsque sagittās
- (metonymically)
- (botany) the extreme thin part of a vine branch or shoot
- the arrowhead (plant of the genusSagittaria)
- (Late Latin, medicine) a lancet (instrument for bloodletting)
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sagitta | sagittae |
Genitive | sagittae | sagittārum |
Dative | sagittae | sagittīs |
Accusative | sagittam | sagittās |
Ablative | sagittā | sagittīs |
Vocative | sagitta | sagittae |
Derived terms
- Sagitta
- sagittālis
- sagittārius
- sagittifer
- Sagittiger
- Sagittipotēns
- sagittō
- sagittula
- Scytalosagittipelliger
Related terms
- sagāx
- sāgiō
- sāgus
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: sãdzeatã
- Romanian: săgeată
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: saetta
- →? Maltese: sajjetta
- Sicilian: sajitta
- Italian: saetta
- North Italian:
- Friulian: saete
- Istriot: sàita
- Ladin: saëta, sita
- Piedmontese: sajëta
- Romansch: sajetta
- Venetian: sita, saéta
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: saete, saiete; sajette (latinized)
- French: sagette
- Old French: saete, saiete; sajette (latinized)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: sageta
- Occitan: sageta
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: saeta
- Old Portuguese: saeta
- Galician: seta
- Portuguese: seta
- Spanish: saeta
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: saitta
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: shigjetë
- → Tsakonian: σογίτθα (sogíttha)
- → Greek: σαΐτα (saḯta)
- → Old Irish: saiget (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *saɣeθ (see there for further descendants)
- Later borrowings:
- → Catalan: sagita
- → English: sagitta
- → Esperanto: sago
- → Italian: sagitta
- → Translingual: Sagitta
- → Spanish: sagita
- → Volapük: sagit
See also
- arcus m
References
- “sagitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sagitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sagitta 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)
- sagitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “sagitta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sagitta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “saetta” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN