"Saxe" meaning in French

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Proper name

IPA: /saks/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-avenue du Maréchal-de-Saxe.wav
Etymology: From Middle French Saxe, an apparently semi-learned form which displaced Old French Saisunie, Sessoigne, etc., from Latin Saxōnia, perhaps after Medieval Latin Saxia or influenced by German Sachsen itself. Compare Middle French Saxone (“Saxony”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|Saxe}} Middle French Saxe, {{glossary|displaced}} displaced, {{ncog|fro|Saisunie||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|pos=|sc=|t=|tr=|ts=}} Old French Saisunie, {{displaced|fro|Saisunie|nocap=1}} displaced Old French Saisunie, {{der|fr|la|Saxōnia}} Latin Saxōnia, {{der|fr|la-med|Saxia}} Medieval Latin Saxia, {{der|fr|de|Sachsen}} German Sachsen, {{cog|frm|Saxone||Saxony}} Middle French Saxone (“Saxony”) Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|f}} Saxe f
  1. Saxony (a state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands)
    Saxony (a historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany)
    Tags: feminine Categories (place): Historical political subdivisions, Historical polities, Places in Germany, Saxony, Germany, States of Germany Related terms: États de la zone: Bade-Wurtemberg · Bavière · Brandebourg · Hesse · Basse-Saxe · Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale · Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie · Rhénanie-Palatinat · Sarre · Saxe · Saxe-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringe, cités-États: Berlin · Brême · Hambourg
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