sane

Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”).

• IPA^(key): /seɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: sain, Seine (one pronunciation)

sane (comparative saner, superlative sanest)

1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.

   a sane mind

2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.

   a sane person

3. Rational; reasonable; sensible.

   Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.

• (possessing mental faculties): in one's right mind, play with a full deck
• See also Thesaurus:sane.

• insane
• crazy
• unbalanced
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

• sanely

• (being healthy): sanity, mental health
• (possessing mental faculties): compos mentis, right-minded

• ENSA, Esan, NAEs, NESA, Nase, Sean, Sena, eans, nase, sean

• IPA^(key): [sane]

sane

1. bad

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈsane]
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: sa‧ne

sane

1. healthily

sana (“word”) +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑneˣ/, [ˈs̠ɑne̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑne
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧ne

sane

1. (linguistics) vocable (word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning)
2. word token

• Esan

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: sà‧ne

sane f pl

1. feminine plural of sano

• anse

sane

1. Rōmaji transcription of さね

sānus (“healthy; sane”) +‎ -ē (adverb formant)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.neː/, [ˈs̠äːneː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/, [ˈsäːne]

sānē (comparative sānius, superlative sānissimē)

1. soundly, healthily, well
2. soberly, sensibly, reasonably, discreetly
3. (by extension) yes, truly, indeed; certainly, right, really; quite, very

   Synonym: valde

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.ne/, [ˈs̠äːnɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ne/, [ˈsäːne]

sāne

1. vocative masculine singular of sānus

• “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    
• “sane”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “sane”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

sane

1. inflection of sanar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

sane

1. inflection of sanar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative