sabio
See also: Sabio and sábio
Italian
Etymology
From Arabic الصابئة (al-Ṣābiʼah), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.bjo/
- Rhymes: -abjo
- Hyphenation: sà‧bio
Noun
sabio m (plural sabi, feminine sabia)
- Sabian
Further reading
- sabio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin sapidus, from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsabjo/
Noun
sabio m (plural sabios, feminine singular sabia, feminine plural sabias)
- someone learned, a wise man; sage
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 64v.
- e el reẏ con ſana q́ auie mando que mataſen todos los ſabios de babilonna e demandaron a danel e aſos conpaneros por matar
- And the king, full of anger, ordered all the wise men of Babylon be put to death, and they sought Daniel and his companions to put them to death.
- e el reẏ con ſana q́ auie mando que mataſen todos los ſabios de babilonna e demandaron a danel e aſos conpaneros por matar
- c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 64v.
Related terms
- saber
Descendants
- Spanish: sabio
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish sabio, from Latin sapidus, from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”). Doublet of sápido.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsabjo/ [ˈsa.β̞jo]
- Rhymes: -abjo
- Syllabification: sa‧bio
Adjective
sabio (feminine sabia, masculine plural sabios, feminine plural sabias)
- learned
- Synonym: docto
- prudent; wise
- Synonym: prudente
Noun
sabio m (plural sabios, feminine sabia, feminine plural sabias)
- learned person
- wise person
Derived terms
- Siete Sabios
Related terms
- saber
- sabiduría f
Further reading
- “sabio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014