Wiktionary

saint

See also: Saint and SA Int

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /seɪnt/
  • (UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title) IPA(key): /sən(t)/, [sn̩(t)], [sɨn(t)]
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -eɪnt

Etymology 1

edit

From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sānctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancīre (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Doublet of Sanctus. Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).

Noun

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 
Francis of Assisi, a Catholic saint.

saint (plural saints)

  1. (religion, generally) A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
    The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012.
  2. (Christianity) One of the blessed in heaven.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 742–744:
      Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure / Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount / Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing,
  3. (Christianity) A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.
  4. (Mormonism, specifically) Alternative letter-case form of Saint (“a Mormon, a Latter-day Saint”)
  5. (figuratively, by extension) A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.
    Dorothy Day was a living saint.
    Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!
  6. (archaic) A holy object.
Alternative forms
edit
Synonyms
edit
  • (holy person): hallow (obsolete)
Hyponyms
edit
  • (holy person): holy man (male, nondenominational); arhat (Buddhism); sage (East Asia and philosophical sects); immortal (Taoism); wali (Islamic saint); casis (Islamic saint, historical); sultan (Turkish Sufi saint); martyr (person revered for sacrificing their life for a cause, sometimes inclusive of secular reverence by nations or political parties); confessor (Christian saints other than martyrs); san (male Christian saint in Spanish contexts, usu. as a title); santa (female Christian saint in Spanish contexts, usu. as a title); sainte (female Christian saint in French contexts, usu. as a title)
Derived terms
edit
See also the lists of derived terms at Saint and St
edit
Translations
edit
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
edit

Etymology 2

edit

From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).

Verb

edit

saint (third-person singular simple present saints, present participle sainting, simple past and past participle sainted)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.
    Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.
Translations
edit

Etymology 3

edit

From the pattern of naming various parishes and other places for Christian saints.

Prefix

edit

saint

  1. (toponymy) Capitalized and placed before another term, particularly personal names, to create placename without direct association to any religious character.
Usage notes
edit

May be used for either male or female names. May be combined with the other word using a hyphen, particularly following French examples.

Alternative forms
edit
Coordinate terms
edit

Further reading

edit

Anagrams

edit

French

edit

Etymology

edit

From Latin sanctus (“holy”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

saint m (plural saints, feminine sainte)

  1. a male saint; masculine of sainte

Adjective

edit

saint (feminine sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)

  1. saintly (all meanings)

Derived terms

edit

- in Belgian toponyms:

- in Canadian toponyms:

- In French toponyms:

- In toponyms of French Guiana:

- In Guadeloupean toponyms:

- In Italian toponyms:

- In toponyms of Martinique:

- In toponyms of Réunion:

- In Swiss toponyms:

Further reading

edit

Anagrams

edit

Irish

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Irish sant, of uncertain origin; cognate with Manx saynt and Scottish Gaelic sannt. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *hwant (the source of Welsh chwant (“desire”)),[2] from Proto-Celtic *swantos, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of *swantos is sét (whence séad (“a valuable”) and seoid (“jewel”)). Against this hypothesis is the fact that Old Irish sét and Welsh chwant are masculine, while Old Irish sant and its descendants are feminine.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

saint f (genitive singular sainte)

  1. greed, avarice, covetousness
  2. great eagerness, desire

Declension

edit
Declension of saint

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative saint
Vocative a shaint
Genitive sainte
Dative saint

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tsaint
Genitive na sainte
Dative leis an tsaint

don tsaint

Synonyms

edit

Derived terms

edit

Mutation

edit
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
saint shaint
after an, tsaint 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

edit
  1. ^ “saint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 43

Further reading

edit

Norman

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).

Pronunciation

edit

Adjective

edit

saint m

  1. (Jersey) holy

Noun

edit

saint m (plural saints)

  1. (Jersey, religion) saint

Old French

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Latin sanctus

Noun

edit

saint oblique singular, m (oblique plural sainz or saintz, nominative singular sainz or saintz, nominative plural saint)

  1. saint

Declension

edit
  Declension of saint  
Number Case Masculine Feminine
Singular Subject sainz sainte
Oblique saint sainte
Plural Subject saint saintes
Oblique sainz saintes

Adjective

edit

saint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sainte)

  1. holy
  2. pious; devout

Descendants

edit
  • → English: saint
  • French: saint
  • Norman: saint (Jersey)

Welsh

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

saint m pl (not mutable)

  1. plural of sant
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=saint&oldid=80874391"