saison

From French saison (“season”). Doublet of season.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛzɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌseɪˈzɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

saison (plural saisons)

1. A kind of highly carbonated pale ale.

• Ossian, Sionas, Saino's, Sianos

Inherited from Old French saison, seson, seison, inherited from Latin satiō, satiōnem (“act of sowing, planting”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.zɔ̃/ ~ /se.zɔ̃/

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saison f (plural saisons)

1. season (one of the four parts of the year in temperate regions: winter, spring, summer and autumn)
2. season (a certain time of the year, when something in particular happens)

   La saison de ski ― The skiing season

   La saison des fraises ― Strawberry season

3. (sports) season (the time of the year when teams compete)

• “saison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

saison (plural saisones)

1. season

• saisonal

• seson, sesson

Inherited from Latin satiōnem (“act of sowing, planting”).

saison oblique singular, f (oblique plural saisons, nominative singular saison, nominative plural saisons)

1. season (one of the four parts of the year: winter, spring, summer and autumn)

   Coordinate terms: printans, esté, autumne, yver

• Bourguignon: saizon
• Champenois: sâjon
• French: saison (see there for further descendants)
• Franc-Comtois: séson
• Norman: saisoun, saîson, saisaon (Guernsey), sezõõ (Sark)
• Picard: soaison
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: sésun
• Walloon: såjhon
• → Middle English: sesoun, seson (see there for further descendants)

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “saison”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.