sabio

• sábio (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabio (“wise”), from Latin sapĭdus (“wise”), from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabjo/ [ˈs̺a.β̞jʊ]
• Rhymes: -abjo

sabio (feminine sabia, masculine plural sabios, feminine plural sabias)

1. learned, wise

sabio m (plural sabios, feminine sabia, feminine plural sabias)

1. learned person
2. sage; wise person

• “sabio”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From Arabic الصَّابِئَة (aṣ-ṣābiʔa), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bjo/
• Rhymes: -abjo
• Hyphenation: sà‧bio

sabio m (plural sabi, feminine sabia)

1. Sabian

• sabio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin sapidus, from sapiō (“to be wise”, literally “to taste of”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try, to research”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabjo/

sabio m (plural sabios, feminine singular sabia, feminine plural sabias)

1. 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.

• saber

• Spanish: sabio

Inherited 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabjo/ [ˈsa.β̞jo]

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• Rhymes: -abjo
• Syllabification: sa‧bio

sabio (feminine sabia, masculine plural sabios, feminine plural sabias)

1. learned

   Synonym: docto

2. prudent; wise

   Synonyms: prudente, juicioso

sabio m (plural sabios, feminine sabia, feminine plural sabias)

1. learned person
2. wise person

• “sabio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28