Sage the color or Sage the Mountian guru person.
Every web dictionary says the Sage the Smart guy is from the 14th century or thereabouts.
But I can’t find anything about the color sage.
Sage is a color??
This is getting out of hand.
It’s bad enough that my shoes are chocolate, my shirt is strawberry and my scarf is vanilla. What the hell color is sage??
Sage is a shade of green. Named after a plant. So it’s really, which came first, the plant or the person?
rain, you are so right.
The color, the plant or the guru, which came first?
Okay I looked it up, and it was waaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of the list on dictionary.com:
Since it’s listed as Sage Green (not just “sage”), that sounds like the plant must have come first. In fact, the word “sage” would be a noun in this case, like “Fire Engine Red” or “Sky Blue”.
Wait- there was a guru named sage??
I need to step aside. This thread is so over my head.
The two words, sage the name of a plant (Salvia spp.) and sage meaning ‘wise man’, originate from two completely different Latin words.
The plant sage comes from Latin salvia, from salvus ‘healthy, safe’, because of the plant’s medicinal value in herbal medicine (Compare salute, salvation, safe, save). Salve meaning a type of medicine comes from the same origin. From the Proto-Indo-European root **sol-/sel- ‘whole’.
Actually, one species was used for herbal medicine: Salvia officinalis, familiar to us as common garden sage. The officinalis shows that it had medicinal use. The herb Salvia divinorum, though related, is another thing altogether.
The wise man sage comes from Latin sapius, ‘wise’. This from the verb sapere ‘to know, to be aware’, originally ‘to taste’. The way to know, really know something, not just by hearsay but by direct experience, is to “taste” it. From the Proto-Indo-European root *sap- ‘taste’.
A color, a plant, and a guru walked into an orgy …
Ah, I thought this was going to be about orange.
“In fact, the word “sage” would be a noun in this case, like “Fire Engine Red” or “Sky Blue”.”
um, it would be a noun in any case.
i reckon the plant came first. you’re not telling me the plant only appeared after the man was born are you?