Sabine
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Latin Sabini from Ancient Greek Σαβῖνοι, the exonymic name of an Italic tribe from the central Apennines, which also gave rise to a Latin cognomen Sabinus.
The cognomen of a 1st C AD Roman empress and a 2nd C Roman empress, and the name of a 2nd C Roman saint and a 4th C Roman saint.
The English diminutive Sab and the vernacular form Sabyn are witnessed in 1379 in the relational bynames Sabsoñ (WRYPT1 p. 305) and Sabynsoñ (WRYPT1 p. 153).
- England
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- Latin
- ● 1199 Sabina (nom) RotCur2 p. 8,
Sabinam (acc) ibid. p. 94;
1222 Sabina (nom) StPaulDom p. 45;
1340xc1450 Sabina (nom) CovGuild-1 p. 71;
1379 Sabina (nom) WRYPT1 p. 20;
1381 Sabina (nom) Suffolk1381 p. 77,
Sabyn (nom) ibid. p. 111
- ◑ 1381 Sabbe (nom) Suffolk1381 p. 71,
Sabella (nom) ibid. p. 102
- Early Modern English
- ● 1589 Sabine DEmar-vol2 p. 17
- ◑ 1560/1 Sabel RegSASel p. 7;
1587 Sabe DEmar-vol2 p. 13
- France
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- Latin
- ● 814 Savina (nom) StVdM-II G3
- Hungary
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- Latin
- ● 1276 Sabina (nom) ÁSznt p. 686
- Italy
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- Latin
- ● 1527 Savina (nom) Rome1527 p. 90
Cite as: M. Slíz, S.L. Uckelman. "Sabine". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2017, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2017/1/name/Sabine.