sabio
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese sabio (“wise”), from Latin sapĭdus (“wise”), from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).
Adjective edit
sabio (feminine sabia, masculine plural sabios, feminine plural sabias)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
sabio m (plural sabios, feminine sabia, feminine plural sabias)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sabio” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic الصَّابِئَة (aṣ-ṣābiʔa), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabio m (plural sabi, feminine sabia)
Further reading edit
- sabio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sapidus, from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabio m (plural sabios, feminine singular sabia, feminine plural sabias)
- someone learned, a wise man; sage
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 64v.
- e el reẏ con ſana q́ auie mando que mataſen todos los ſabios de babilonna e demandaron a danel e aſos conpaneros por matar
- And the king, full of anger, ordered all the wise men of Babylon be put to death, and they sought Daniel and his companions to put them to death.
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 64v.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Spanish: sabio
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish sabio, from Latin sapidus, from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”). Doublet of sápido.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sabio (feminine sabia, masculine plural sabios, feminine plural sabias)
Noun edit
sabio m (plural sabios, feminine sabia, feminine plural sabias)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sabio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014