saint

The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012.

(religion, generally) A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.

Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure / Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount / Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing,

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 742–744:

(Christianity) One of the blessed in heaven.

Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in euery place call vpon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:2:

(Christianity) A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.

(Mormonism, specifically) Alternative letter-case form of Saint (“a Mormon, a Latter-day Saint”)

Dorothy Day was a living saint.

Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!

(figuratively, by extension) A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good.

It is ruine to a man to deuoure ſaintes, and afterward to retracte the vowes.

1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Proverbes 20:25, page 299:

Francis of Assisi
saint
saint (disambiguation)

martyr

person revered for sacrificing their life for a cause, sometimes inclusive of secular reverence by nations or political parties

santa

female Christian saint in Spanish contexts, usu. as a title

sainte

female Christian saint in French contexts, usu. as a title

the lists of derived terms at Saint and St

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(figuratively) a person with positive qualities

From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sānctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancīre (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Doublet of Sanctus. Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).


saint

Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.

(transitive) Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.

en-verb

saint (third-person singular simple present saints, present participle sainting, simple past and past participle sainted)

saints (present singular third-person)
sainting (participle present)
sainted (participle past)
sainted (past)

канонизирам

formally recognize as a saint — see also canonize

From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).


saint

(toponymy) Capitalized and placed before another term, particularly personal names, to create placename without direct association to any religious character.

From the pattern of naming various parishes and other places for Christian saints.


saint

fr-noun

saint m (plural saints, feminine sainte)


saint

fr-adj

saint (feminine sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)

sainte (feminine)
saints (masculine plural)
saintes (feminine plural)


saint

sainte (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
saint (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a shaint (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
sainte (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an tsaint (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na sainte (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an tsaint (definite singular)
don tsaint (definite singular)
saint
shaint
tsaint

From Old Irish sant, of uncertain origin; cognate with Manx saynt and Scottish Gaelic sannt. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *hwant (the source of Welsh chwant (“desire”)), from Proto-Celtic *swantos, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of *swantos is sét (whence séad (“a valuable”) and seoid (“jewel”)). Against this hypothesis is the fact that Old Irish sét and Welsh chwant are masculine, while Old Irish sant and its descendants are feminine.


saint

From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).


saint

fro-noun

saint oblique singular, m (oblique plural sainz or saintz, nominative singular sainz or saintz, nominative plural saint)

saint oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
sainz (oblique plural)
saintz (oblique plural)
sainz (nominative singular)
saintz (nominative singular)
saint (nominative plural)
sainz (masculine singular subjective)
sainte (feminine singular subjective)
saint (masculine oblique singular)
sainte (feminine oblique singular)
saint (masculine plural subjective)
saintes (feminine plural subjective)
sainz (masculine oblique plural)
saintes (feminine oblique plural)


saint

Conment hom devoit Dieu servir
Por saint Paradix deservir

c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Elyzabel, fille au roi de Hongrie:

How man should serve God
In order to deserve Heaven

head

saint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sainte)

sainte (feminine nominative oblique singular)

→ English: saint

French: saint

Norman: saint (Jersey)