Saxo

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *sahsō, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs (“dagger, knife”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsak.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsak.so]

Saxō m (genitive Saxōnis); third declension

1. A person from the Germanic tribal community of the Saxons
2. (Medieval Latin, Britain, Ireland, by extension) An English person.

   Synonym: Anglosaxones (in plural)

3. (Medieval Latin, Germany) A speaker of Low German. [from 12th c.]

Third-declension noun.

• Saxones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Saxo”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC