Sabine
[səˈbiːn]Meaning
French, German, Dutch and Danish form of Sabina, from the Latin saint's name.
Background Story
Sabine is the French, German, Dutch and Danish form of Sabina, itself from the Latin saint's name. The name is also used in Ancient Roman, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene and Spanish. Latin Sabinus, from which it derives, is said to mean "of one's own," from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ-.
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