sabaiarius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sabaia (“an alcoholic drink from Illyria”) + -ārius.
Noun edit
sabaiārius m (genitive *sabaiāriī or sabaiārī); second declension
- drinker of sabaia; (derogatory) drunkard, lush, pisshead
- c. 390 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.8.2:
- Exindeque profectus, oppugnationi Chalcedonis magnis viribus insistebat, cuius e muris probra in eum iaciebantur, et irrisive compellebatur ut Sabaiarius.