sabulum
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editTraditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂-dʰ- (compare Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), ψάμμος (psámmos), English sand) with a diminutive suffix -ulum, from the root *sem(h₂)- (“to pour”) (compare dialectal English samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”)). However, this etymology is fraught with problems.
More recent scholarship considers the Latin to be from a European substrate, with original form *(p)sam- or *sab⁽ʰ⁾-. Under this view, the terms listed with *sámh₂-dʰ- are cognate and derived from the same substrate continuum, but not the ones listed with *sem(h₂)-.[1]
Noun
editsabulum n (genitive sabulī); second declension
- Alternative form of sabulō
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sabulum | sabula |
| genitive | sabulī | sabulōrum |
| dative | sabulō | sabulīs |
| accusative | sabulum | sabula |
| ablative | sabulō | sabulīs |
| vocative | sabulum | sabula |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sabulum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 531
Further reading
edit- “sabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.