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From Latin sagina (“feasting, nourishment, corpulence”).

sagina (plural saginas)

1. Any herb of the genus Sagina.

• Gaians, Nagais, Nisga'a, sangai

Unknown, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satisfy”), source of Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“full”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈɡiː.na/, [s̠äˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈd͡ʒi.na/, [säˈd͡ʒiːnä]

sagīna f (genitive sagīnae); first declension

1. feasting, nourishment
2. corpulence

First-declension noun.

• sagīnārium
• sagīnātiō
• sagīnātus
• sagīnō

• From *sagīnum:
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: sain
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Piedmontese: sarzin
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: sain
      • ⇒ French: saindoux
        • →? Piedmontese: sandos, sandon
      • → Galician: saín
      • → Spanish: saín
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: sagí
    • Occitan: sagin
• From *sagīmen:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Neapolitan: saime, sajime

      Tarantino: saima

    • Sicilian: sajimi

      Calabrese: sajimi

      Pugliese zaiòime

  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: saìm
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: sim
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: saïm
    • Occitan: saïn

sagīnā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sagīnō

• “sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sagina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sagina 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)
• sagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.