Latin

saxum (a stone, rock)

Noun

saxum n ‎(genitive saxī); second declension

1. stone, rock (a large, rough fragment of rock)
   • Aaron Stone, season 1 episode 16:

     Responsum est sub saxo.‎

     The answer is under the rock.

2. (by extension) wall of stone

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (a stone): lapis, petra

Derived terms

• saxum volvō

Related terms

Descendants

• Galician: seixo
• Istriot: sasso
• Italian: sasso
• Portuguese: seixo
• Spanish: sajo, saxo

References

• saxum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• saxum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SAXUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “saxum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • steep rocks: saxa praerupta
    
  • the rocks re-echo: saxa voci respondent or resonant
    
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
  • to throw some one down the Tarpeian rock: deicere aliquem de saxo Tarpeio
    
• saxum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press