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Sax

//sæks// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of Simple API for XML. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of zax. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Clipping of saxophone. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  3. 3
    a shade of colour similar to sky blue
  4. 4
    a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore wordnet
  5. 5
    A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify. British, dialectal, transitive
  2. 2
    To play the saxophone

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

Etymology 3

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Etymology 4

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Etymology 5

Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.

Etymology 6

From the German surname, spelling variant of Sachs.

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