savie

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.vje/
  • Rhymes: -avje
  • Hyphenation: sà‧vie

Adjective

savie

  1. feminine plural of savio

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapium (wise), semantically specialized alteration of Latin sapidus (delicious, wise). Doublet of sage and sade. It has been suggested that this is a borrowing,[1] but the sound-changes are extensive.

Adjective

savie m (oblique and nominative feminine singular savie)

  1. wise

Descendants

  • Middle French: saive
  • Walloon: sêve, saiwe

References

  1. ^ William Pierce Shepard (1897) A Contribution to the History of the Unaccented Vowels in Old French, page 36