Sabini

See also: sabini

Italian

Proper noun

Sabini m pl (plural only)

  1. Sabines

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Sabus, eponym of the Sabines, Italic tribal name from Proto-Italic *saβnōs, *saβn-iyo-, *saβnyom- (compare Oscan 𐌔𐌀𐌚𐌉𐌍𐌉𐌌 (safinim)), from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, possibly *sabh-o, *sₑbho- (one's own), from *swé (self).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sabīnī m pl (genitive Sabīnōrum); second declension

  1. A tribe of Central Italy, who inhabited the central chain of the Apennines

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Sabīnī
Genitive Sabīnōrum
Dative Sabīnīs
Accusative Sabīnōs
Ablative Sabīnīs
Vocative Sabīnī

References

  • Sabini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Sabini in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Sabini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. Stuart-Smith, Jane (2004): Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, p. 67
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