SAXON

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~es ~s, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English Seaxan ~s Date: 13th century 1. a. a member of a Germanic people that entered and conquered England with the Angles and Jutes in the fifth century A.D. and merged with them to form the Anglo-~ people, an Englishman or lowlander as distinguished from a Welshman, Irishman, or Highlander, a native or inhabitant of ~y, 2. the Germanic language or dialect of any of the ~ peoples, the Germanic element in the English language especially as distinguished from the French and Latin, ~ adjective