Sabis

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsa.bɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.bis]

Sabis m sg (genitive Sabis); third declension

1. The river Sambre, or the river Selle (Somme tributary).

Traditionally it was believed that the Battle of the Sabis was fought on the banks of the river Sambre, near modern Aulnoye-Aymeries, but in 1955 Pierre Turquin showed that it was fought on the west bank of the river Selle (Somme tributary), near modern Saulzoir.^[1][2]

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

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