Sega

See also: sega, segá, segà, segā, Sęga, and SEGA

English

Etymology

From Japanese セガ (Sega), an abbreviation of service games, because the company's earliest products were aimed at American servicemen on military bases.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.ɡə/, /ˈsɛ.ɡə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪɡə

Noun

Sega (plural Segas)

  1. Any of various video game consoles manufactured by Sega, a Japanese video game developer and publisher and manufacturer of arcade games and formerly of video game consoles.
    • 2007, S. Westwood, Suicide Junkie:
      I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

Sega

  1. Rōmaji transcription of セガ

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

Sega n

  1. a Sega (video game console from Sega)

Declension

Declension of Sega
nominative genitive
singular indefinite Sega Segas
definite Segat Segats
plural indefinite
definite

Derived terms

  • Segadosa (Sega controller)
  • Segakassett (Sega cartridge)
  • Segakontroll (Sega controller)
  • Segaspel (Sega game)

See also

Proper noun

Sega n (genitive Segas)

  1. Sega (Japanese video game company)