sabulum

Latin

Alternative forms
  • sablum

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos (compare Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), ψάμμος (psámmos)), from *sem- (“to pour”) (compare English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”)). The shift from the masculine gender to the neuter gender is unexplained.

Noun

sabulum n (genitive sabulī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of sabulō

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sabulum sabula
Genitive sabulī sabulōrum
Dative sabulō sabulīs
Accusative sabulum sabula
Ablative sabulō sabulīs
Vocative sabulum sabula

Descendants
  • Asturian: sable
  • Dutch: zavel
  • French: sable
  • Galician: xabre, saibro
  • Italian: sabbia
  • Occitan: sabla
  • Portuguese: saibro
  • Spanish: sable

References
  • “sabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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