seges

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.ɡɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.d͡ʒes]

seges f (genitive segetis); third declension

1. a field sown or planted with wheat, oats, or barley
2. (by extension) a field of standing or growing wheat, oats, or barley, etc.; a crop
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.54:

     Nec vērō segetibus sōlum et prātīs et vīneīs et arbustīs rēs rūsticae laetae sunt, sed hortīs etiam et pōmāriīs, tum pecudum pāstū, apium exāminibus, flōrum omnium varietāte.

     Indeed, the joys of country life are not [found] solely in grain fields, meadows, vineyards, and plantations, but also in gardens and orchards; [they are found] in the grazing of cattle, the swarms of bees, and every variety of flowers.

3. (by extension) a field, ground, soil; arable land
4. (figuratively) a crop, fruit, produce, result, profit

   Synonyms: frūctus, prōventus, frūx

5. (figuratively) a thicket, forest, multitude

Third-declension noun.

• segetālis
• Segetia

• “seges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "seges", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “seges”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
    
• Pokorny, 2405

seges

1. plural of sege