Etymograph

English

Sagittar

Sagittar comes from French sagittaire ‘arrowhead’, and goes back to Latin sagitta.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagitta‘arrow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagittārius‘armed with a bow and arrows’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentsagittaire‘arrowhead’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1634Sagittar

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagitta‘arrow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagittārius‘armed with a bow and arrows’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentsagittaire‘arrowhead’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1634Sagittar

Earliest quotation: 1634, Thomas Carew, London: John Walkley: “The Centaure, the horn'd goatfiſh Capricorne, The ſnake-heard [sic]…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- ‘to seek out’

sake, sucker, hegemony, beseech, saya, hegemon, 20 more

through Proto-Indo-European *séh₂gyeti ‘to seek out, to track’

seek, soc, 6 more

through Latin sāgiō ‘to perceive quickly or keenly’

presage, sagacity, 5 more

Today it means

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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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