Other forms: sages
Sage is a soft grey-green herb used with pork, butter and stuffing. Fresh sage, sage and onion, a sage leaf.
The leaves are strong enough that a few go a long way, and sage butter — leaves fried until crisp — is about the simplest good sauce there is. Sage and onion stuffing is fixed in British cooking. The other sage is a person of deep wisdom, and as an adjective it means wise: sage advice. Note that the two senses share a root in Latin sapere, to be wise or to taste.
1nounsageA soft grey-green herb used in cooking.
“She stuffed the chicken with onion and sage before roasting it.”
2noundeepA person of deep wisdom.
“The Seven Sages of Greece were roughly seven.”
sage is a herb, or a wise person.
Old French sage comes from Latin sapere, to taste and so to be wise. The herb was named for its supposed healing power, so the plant and the wise man are the same word.
Latin
sapere — to taste, to discern, to be wise
Vulgar Latin
*sapium
Old French
sage
Middle English
sage
English, today
sage
From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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