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saxe

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Pronunciation
/sæks/
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/sæks/ · /ˈsæksə/

Definition of saxe

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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  1. (attributive, in-compounds)Saxony: A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany
    “The Intentioun of the Empreour is sic, that he will put from the Impyre, the Palsgraue and Duke August of Saxe […]”
    “When Luther rose, the Duke of Saxe, being moved of God, did receive the Reformation peaceably into his principalities, without any force, and his examples was followed by other Princes and free cities […]”
    “If Prussian policy represented the extreme of encouraging the dissolution of Judaism through inner decay, in Saxe–Weimar it was deemed best to break the bonds of tradition forcibly in order to speed up the process of amalgamation.”
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  1. (attributive, in-compounds)Saxony: A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany
    “The Intentioun of the Empreour is sic, that he will put from the Impyre, the Palsgraue and Duke August of Saxe […]”
    “When Luther rose, the Duke of Saxe, being moved of God, did receive the Reformation peaceably into his principalities, without any force, and his examples was followed by other Princes and free cities […]”
    “If Prussian policy represented the extreme of encouraging the dissolution of Judaism through inner decay, in Saxe–Weimar it was deemed best to break the bonds of tradition forcibly in order to speed up the process of amalgamation.”
  2. A surname from the Germanic languages.

noun

  1. (historical, uncountable)A German albumenized paper used in photography.

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Etymology

Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x…

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Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources. The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of Dutch Sas (literally “Saxon”), a cognate; and Middle English Saxe, a personal name from Old Norse Saxi, from sax (“one-edged sword”). All of these ultimately lead back to Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Doublet of Sachs, Sax, Sas, and Sachse.

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