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01 / Meaning & origin
Sabinus is a masculine given name documented in Latin.
Julius Pokorny le rapproche de se (« soi, à soi ») avec l’idée de liberté et d’indépendance typique des ethnonymes (→ voir Francs) et que l'on retrouve dans Semnones (peuple germanique), Sabelli (peuple du Latium), Samnis, Samnites (peuple du Samnium), Suebi, Suevi (peuple germanique de Souabe → voir Schwaben).
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SABINUS— “Sabine”
Sabinus, of course indicating a Sabine family, occurs among the Flavii, and many other gentes. Sabina was the second name of that Poppæa, Nero’s wife, whose extravagances have become a proverb, who bathed in asses' milk, and shod her mules with gold. As a frequent cognomen, this was the name of many other women, and specially of a widow who was converted by her maid, Seraphia, to the Christian faith, and was martyred in Hadrian’s persecution. There is a church at Rome…
Sabinus, of course indicating a Sabine family, occurs among the Flavii, and many other gentes. Sabina was the second name of that Poppæa, Nero’s wife, whose extravagances have become a proverb, who bathed in asses' milk, and shod her mules with gold. As a frequent cognomen, this was the name of many other women, and specially of a widow who was converted by her maid, Seraphia, to the Christian faith, and was martyred in Hadrian’s persecution. There is a church at Rome dedicated to her, which was formerly the first “Lent station,” a fact which commended her to the notice of the Germans, and has made Sabine frequent among them. Sabina is often found among the peasantry about Gloucester, but it is possible that this may be a corruption of Sabrina (the Severn).
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section VII (Galerius, &c) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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