serrago

Latin

Etymology

serra (“saw”) +‎ -āgō

Noun

serrāgō f (genitive serrāginis); third declension

1. sawdust

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	serrāgō	serrāginēs
Genitive	serrāginis	serrāginum
Dative	serrāginī	serrāginibus
Accusative	serrāginem	serrāginēs
Ablative	serrāgine	serrāginibus
Vocative	serrāgō	serrāginēs

Descendants

• Portuguese: serragem
• Spanish: serrín

References

• “serrago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• serrago 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)
• serrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.