sagitta
See also: Sagitta
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from Latin sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
distance from a point in a curve to the chord
References edit
- “sagitta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.[1]
A minority view connects it to sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈɡit.ta/, [s̠äˈɡɪt̪ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈd͡ʒit.ta/, [säˈd͡ʒit̪ːä]
Noun edit
sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension
- an arrow, shaft, bolt
- (metonymically)
- (botany) the extreme thin part of a vine branch or shoot
- the arrowhead (plant of the genus Sagittaria)
- (Late Latin, medicine) a lancet (instrument for bloodletting)
Inflection edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sagitta | sagittae |
Genitive | sagittae | sagittārum |
Dative | sagittae | sagittīs |
Accusative | sagittam | sagittās |
Ablative | sagittā | sagittīs |
Vocative | sagitta | sagittae |
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Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: saitta
- Ancient borrowings:
- Later borrowings:
See also edit
- arcus m
References edit
- “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