seges

Meaning

1. (declension-3, feminine) a field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley
2. (broadly, declension-3, feminine) the standing wheat, oats, or barley; growing wheat, etc., crop
3. (broadly, declension-3, feminine) a field, ground, soil; arable land
4. (declension-3, feminine, figuratively) a crop, fruit, produce, result, profit
5. (declension-3, feminine, figuratively) a thicket, forest, multitude

Concepts

crop

field of wheat

wheat crop

wheatfield

wheat field

harvest

cornfield

Synonyms

messis

frux

frūgēs

Translations

messe

collita

Ernte

Ertrag

Getreide

Kornfeld

αραβοσιτώνας

θeri’smos

moisson

champ de blé

coltura

raccolto

gewas

oogst

voedselgewas

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsɛ.ɡɛs]

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seg- (“to attach, to touch”). Compare Proto-Germanic *sankilaz (“lace, tie”), Proto-Slavic *sęgati (“to reach”) and Sanskrit सजति (sájati, “to cling to”).