Sabini

Sabini m pl (plural only)

1. Sabines

• Basini

From Sabus, eponym of the Sabines, Italic tribal name from Proto-Italic *saβnōs, *saβn-iyo-, *saβnyom- (compare Oscan 𐌔𐌀𐌚𐌉𐌍𐌉𐌌 (safinim), Latin Samnium and the Samnōnēs), from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, possibly *sebʰ-, *sₔbʰ- (“one's own”), or a derivative of *swé (“self”).^[1] Compare the Germanic tribe name *Swēbaz (“one of the Suēbī”), which may have a similar etymology. Or, from a substrate element *sab-; compare the Sabellī.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈbiː.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈbiː.ni]

Sabīnī m pl (genitive Sabīnōrum); second declension

1. A tribe of Central Italy, who inhabited the central chain of the Apennines

Second-declension noun, plural only.

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