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nomnomattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈsɑːɡə//
  • États-Unis//ˈsɑɡə//
  • Australie//ˈsɐːɡə//
  • Écosse//ˈsaɡə//

An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

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  1. 1

    An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

  2. 2

    Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

    The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.

    Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.

    According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

Étymologie

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”).

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  1. 1

    Aussi une forme de sagumplural of sagum

Étymologie

From Latin saga, plural of sagum.

Formes

pluriel
sagas
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).