sax

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of zax. alt-of,alternative
  2. Clipping of saxophone. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  3. a shade of colour similar to sky blue
  4. A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify. UK,dialectal,transitive
  2. To play the saxophone

词形变化

saxes plural saxes present,singular,third-person saxing participle,present saxed participle,past saxed past saxes plural saxes present,singular,third-person saxing participle,present saxed participle,past saxed past saxes plural

词汇关系

相关词
Essex Middlesex saw saxie Saxon seax Sussex Wessex

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.
词源 2
Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
词源 3
Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.
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