sabaia

Latin

Alternative forms
  • sabaium

Etymology

From Illyrian, probably originally from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”), whence German Saft, English sap, and Sanskrit सबर् (sabar).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

sabaia f (genitive sabaiae); first declension

  1. A kind of Illyrian beer, made out of barley or wheat.
    Est autem sabaia ex ordeo vel frumento in liquorem conversus paupertinus in Illyrico potus.[2]
    Sabaia is a wretched drink made in Illyria out of barley or wheat.

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular
Nominative sabaia
Genitive sabaiae
Dative sabaiae
Accusative sabaiam
Ablative sabaiā
Vocative sabaia

Derived terms
  • sabaiārius (“beer-drinker; drinker of sabaia”)[2]

References
  1. Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 465
  2. Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 26, 8.2
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