Sabrina

See also: sabrina

English

Proper noun

Sabrina

1. (mythology) A legendary Celtic princess who gave her name to the river Severn.
2. A female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954).

Quotations

• 1637 John Milton, Comus

  There is a gentle nymph not far from hence,

  That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,

  Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure.

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Danish

Proper noun

Sabrina

1. a female given name recently borrowed from English.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bʁi.na/

Proper noun

Sabrina ?

1. a female given name borrowed from English, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Anagrams

• abrasin

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sabrina

1. a female given name borrowed from English, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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Italian

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name.

Anagrams

• sbranai

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Latin

Etymology

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View of the river

Proper noun

Sabrīna f sg (genitive Sabrīnae); first declension

1. The river Severn

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sabrīna
Genitive	Sabrīnae
Dative	Sabrīnae
Accusative	Sabrīnam
Ablative	Sabrīnā
Vocative	Sabrīna

References

• “Sabrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sabrina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sabrina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sabrina