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 to-ess-sem (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”)).

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

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.