Talk:saint

Missing senses?

Chambers 1908 says that, in the plural, saints can mean "Israelites as a people" or "Christians generally". Equinox ◑ 10:26, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Derived terms from Chambers 1908

(Presumably St may be replaced by St. or Saint in most or all of these.)

• St Agnes's flower, the snowflake (? but seems to be a plant: possibly snowdrop?)
• St Anthony's nut, the pig-nut or hawk-nut
• St Audrey's necklace, a string of holy stones
• St Barnaby's thistle, or Barnaby thistle, the English star-thistle (also found in Wikipedia)
• St Bennet's herb, the herb bennet
• St Blase's disease, quinsy
• St Cassian beds, a division of the Triassic series
• St John's hawk, a blackish variety of the rough-legged buzzard
• St Leger, a race run at Doncaster, so called since 1778 from Col. St Leger
• St Peter's finger, a belemnite
• St Peter's wort, a name of several plants
• St Pierre group, a thick mass of shales in the upper Missouri region
• Communion of the Saints, the spiritual fellowship of all true believers, the blessed dead as well as the faithful living, mystically united in each other in Christ

Equinox ◑ 21:08, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

"Prefix"

It's generally accepted elsewhere in Wikt to count entirely separate words as "prefixes"?

Further, if ever actually used, it would inevitably be capitalized. Isn't this the wrong typecase for this sense? — LlywelynII 12:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)