Saracene

Saracēne

1. vocative singular of Saracēnus

• Sarracene, Sarocine

Borrowed from Latin Saracēnus, from Ancient Greek Σᾰρᾰκηνός (Sărăkēnós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.rɑ.ke.ne/

Saracene m pl

1. the Saracens
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     ⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare fōr Odda Rōmana cāsere tō Grēclande, ⁊ þā ġemette hē þāra Sarcena myċele fyrde cuman upp of sǣ, ⁊ woldon þā faran on hergoð on þæt Crīstene folc; ⁊ þā ġefeaht þā cāsere wið hī. ⁊ þǣr wæs myċel wæl ġeslæġen on ġehwæþere hand, ⁊ sē cāsere āhte wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ hwæðere hē þǣr wæs miċċlum ġeswenced, ǣr hē þanon hwurfe, ⁊ þā hē hāmweard fōr. ⁊ hē wæs Lēodulfes sunu æþelinges, ⁊ sē Lēodulf wæs þǣs ealdan Oddan sunu, ⁊ Ēadweardes cynginges dohtor sunu.

     And in the same year, Emperor Otto of Rome went to Greece, and there he encountered a great army of Saracens who had come up from the sea, and intended to then go make war against the Christian people; and so the emperor then fought against them. There was great slaughter on each side, and the emperor took control of the battlefield. Nevertheless, he was very fatigued, and so thence turned around and traveled towards home. He was the son of Prince Leodulf, and Leodulf was son of the elder Otto, and the son of King Edward's daughter.

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Saracene”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.