sabulum
Latin
Alternative forms
- sablum
Etymology
Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂-dʰ- (compare Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), ψάμμος (psámmos), English sand, and possibly Old Armenian աւազ (awaz)) with a diminutive suffix -ulum. However, according to the EIEC, such a reconstruction is phonotactically impossible.[1] More recent scholarship considers the Latin to be from a European substrate,[2] with the original form *(p)sam- or *sab⁽ʰ⁾-. Under this view, the terms listed with *sámh₂-dʰ- are cognate and derived from the same substrate continuum, but not the ones listed with *sem(h₂)-.[3]
Noun
sabulum n (genitive sabulī); second declension
- alternative form of sabulō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sabulum | sabula |
| genitive | sabulī | sabulōrum |
| dative | sabulō | sabulīs |
| accusative | sabulum | sabula |
| ablative | sabulō | sabulīs |
| vocative | sabulum | sabula |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “*samh₂dʰos”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 499
- ^ Pronk, Tijmen (2019), “Proto-Indo-European *a”, in Indo-European Linguistics, volume 7, page 154 of 122–163: “*(p)sa(m)(a)dʰ- ‘sand’ (Lat. sabulum)”
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sabulum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 531
Further reading
- “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, 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.