sabbatum

Gothic

Romanization

sabbatum

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌿𐌼

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsab.ba.tum/, [ˈs̠äbːät̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsab.ba.tum/, [ˈsäbːät̪um]

Noun

sabbatum n (genitive sabbatī); second declension

1. Sabbath (Jewish day of rest)
2. Saturday (Late/Christian Latin)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sabbatum	sabbata
Genitive	sabbatī	sabbatōrum
Dative	sabbatō	sabbatīs
Accusative	sabbatum	sabbata
Ablative	sabbatō	sabbatīs
Vocative	sabbatum	sabbata

Synonyms

• (the Sabbath): Hērōdis diēs

Derived terms

• diēs Sabbatī

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: sàbatu
  • Dalmatian: sabata, subatu
  • Italian: sabato, sabbato (regional or archaic)
    • → Thai: สะบาโต (sà-baa-dtoo)
  • Sicilian: sàbbatu, sàbbitu
• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: sàbot
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: sabide, sàbide (alternative orthography)
  • Ladin: sabeda
  • Romansch: sonda, sanda, somda
• Sardinian: sàbadu, sàbudu, sàpatu
• Venetian: sabo
• West Iberian
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: sabado
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: sábadu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sabado
    • Galician: sábado
    • Portuguese: sábado
      • → Kadiwéu: xaabado
      • → Old Tupi: sabaru
        • Nheengatu: saurú
      • → Tetum: loron-sábadu
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: sábado
      • → Cebuano: Sabado
      • → Chayuco Mixtec: zavɨru
      • → Karao: Sabaro
      • → Mezquital Otomi: sabdo
      • → Papiamentu: djasabra
      • → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: sávuru, savru
      • → Tagalog: Sabado
      • → Taos: sóbolu
      • → Tataltepec Chatino: saru
      • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: söbro
      • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: xöbatu
      • → Tübatulabal: ša·varu
• Vulgar Latin: *sambatum (see there for further descendants)
• → Danish: sabbat
  • → Faroese: sabbatur
• → Dutch: sabbat
• → Italian: sabba
• → Old French: sabat, sabbat
  • Middle French:
    • French: sabbat, chabbat, shabbat
      • → English: sabbat
  • Norman: sabbat
  • → Old English: Sabat
    • Middle English: sabat, sabbat, sabath
      • English: Sabbath
• → Polish: sabat
• → Portuguese: sabá, sabbat
• → Proto-Slavic: *sǫbota, *sobota (see there for further descendants)
• → Swedish: sabbat

References

• “sabbatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sabbatum 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)
• sabbatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.