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SageEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English and French surname, from sage, a nickname for a wise person. The given name, in general use since the 1990s, is also associated with the sage plant. Compare Desage, Lesage. * As an Irish surname, variant of Savage. * As a German surname, from a placename derived from the noun sege (“sedge”) (see sedge).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sageEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sageEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe. Doublet of salvia.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sageEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sageEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SageEnglish · e-38700-86
Sage, sāj, n. any plant of genus Salvia, of the mint family, esp. Common or Garden Sage, used for flavouring meats.—ns. Sage′-app′le, a gall formed on a species of sage; Sage′-bread, bread baked from dough mixed with a s
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Sage, sāj, adj. discriminating, discerning, wise: well judged.—n. a wise man: a man of gravity and wisdom.—adv. Sage′ly.—n. Sage′ness.—Seven sages, or wise men (see Seven). [Fr. sage (It. saggio, savio), from a L. sapius
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