seges

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seg- (“to attach, to touch”). Compare Proto-Germanic *sankilaz (“lace, tie”) and Sanskrit सजति (sájati, “to cling to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ɡes/, [ˈs̠ɛɡɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.d͡ʒes/, [ˈsɛːd͡ʒes]

Noun

seges f (genitive segetis); third declension

1. a field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley
2. (by extension) the standing wheat, oats, or barley; growing wheat, etc., crop
3. (by extension) a field, ground, soil; arable land
4. (figuratively) a crop, fruit, produce, result, profit

   Synonyms: frūctus, prōventus, frūx

5. (figuratively) a thicket, forest, multitude

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	seges	segetēs
Genitive	segetis	segetum
Dative	segetī	segetibus
Accusative	segetem	segetēs
Ablative	segete	segetibus
Vocative	seges	segetēs

Derived terms

• segetālis
• Segetia

References

• “seges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• seges 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)
• seges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
    
• Pokorny, 2405

Middle English

Noun

seges

1. plural of sege