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Latin
Etymology
From sabaia (“an alcoholic drink from Illyria”) + -ārius.
Noun
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.