Latin

Alternative forms

• Sarracēnus

Noun

Saracēnus m ‎(genitive Saracēnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) Saracen

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

• saracēnātus
• Saracēnismus / Sarracēnismus
• Sarracēnigena

Descendants

• Old English: Sarocine, Sarracene
• Old French: Sarazin, Sarrazin
  • Middle French: Sarrazin
    • French: Sarrasin
  • Middle English: Sarezin, Sarrezin
    • English: Saracen
• Italian: Saracino
• Spanish: Saraceno
• Galician: sarraceno
• Portuguese: sarraceno

References

• Saracēni in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Sarracēni”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,393/2.