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Latin
Etymology
Illyrian. Probably from
Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste; juice”), whence Proto-West Germanic *sap (“juice, sap”), and Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”).[1][2]
Noun
sabaia f sg (genitive *sabaiae); first declension
- A kind of Illyrian beer, made out of barley or wheat.
c. 390 CE,
Ammianus Marcellinus,
Res Gestae 26.8.2:
- Est autem sabaia ex ordeo vel frumento in liquorem conversus paupertinus in Illyrico potus.
- Sabaia is a wretched drink made in Illyria out of barley or wheat.
- [(Can we date this quote?) Hieronymus, commentary to Isaias 7.19:
quod genus est potionis ex frugibus aquaque confectum ei vulgo in Dalmatiae Pannoniaeque provinciis gentili barbaroque sermone appellatur sabaium- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
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