name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
sabine
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/səˈbiːn/
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General-American: /ˈseɪbaɪn/
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UK: /ˈsæbaɪn/
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 B IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Ellipsis of Sabine River: A river in Louisiana and Texas in the United States
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 3
Ellipsis of Sabine County: A county of Texas, United States; the county is named for the river.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 4
Ellipsis of Sabine Parish: A parish of Louisiana, United States; the parish is named for the river.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 5
Ellipsis of Sabine Lake: A former lake, a bay on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Sabine River, on the border of Louisiana and Texas in the United States
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative form of savin.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 7
A member of a certain ancient tribe of Italy.
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adjective
Meaning 8
of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
Meaning 9
a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Sabine River
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Broader terms: river
noun
Meaning 10
a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
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Broader terms: Italian
History
Etymology
From the Latin saint's name Sabina.
From French Sabines (“Rivière Sabines”) via sabine (“tree type”), from Spanish Sabinas (“Rio de Sabinas”), from sabina (“type of tree”), from Latin herba Sabina (“tree”), from Sabinus (“tribe”); named after the forests on the shores of the river. Named in 1716 by Spanish explorer Domingo Ramón.
From Latin Sabinus. The name is said to mean "of one's own," from Proto-Indo-European *sebh-, *swebh- (“one's own”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: Sabijn — member of a tribe
- Irish: Saibíneach — member of a tribe
- Italian: Sabino — member of a tribe
- Manx: Sabeenagh — member of a tribe
- Russian: саби́н (sabín) — member of a tribe
- Russian: сабиня́нин (sabinjánin) — member of a tribe
- Sicilian: Savinu — member of a tribe
Real reading context