Толковый словарь английского языка - saxon
Saxon
saxon
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~es ~s, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English Seaxan ~s Date: 13th century 1. a. a member of a Germanic people that entered and conquered England with the Angles and Jutes in the fifth century A.D. and merged with them to form the Anglo-~ people, an Englishman or lowlander as distinguished from a Welshman, Irishman, or Highlander, a native or inhabitant of ~y, 2. the Germanic language or dialect of any of the ~ peoples, the Germanic element in the English language especially as distinguished from the French and Latin, ~ adjective
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n. & adj. --n. 1 hist. a a member of the Germanic people that conquered parts of England in 5th-6th c. b (usu. Old Saxon) the language of the Saxons. 2 = ANGLO-SAXON. 3 a native of modern Saxony in Germany. 4 the Germanic (as opposed to Latin or Romance) elements of English. --adj. 1 hist. of or concerning the Saxons. 2 belonging to or originating from the Saxon language or Old English. 3 of or concerning modern Saxony or Saxons. Phrases and idioms Saxon architecture the form of Romanesque architecture preceding the Norman in England. Saxon blue a solution of indigo in sulphuric acid as a dye. Derivatives Saxondom n. Saxonism n. Saxonist n. Saxonize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL Saxo -onis f. Gk Saxones (pl.) f. WG: cf. OE Seaxan, Seaxe (pl.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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