Sabbia
/ˈsab.bja/noun
Italian for sand.
Did you know?Italian sabbia comes from Latin sabulum, a word for coarse sand or gravel, showing how everyday landscape words can preserve very old Roman vocabulary.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*seh₂-
“to sift, sort, or separate”
Latin
Latin
sabulum
“coarse sand, gravel”
Late Latin
Latin
sabbia
“sand”
Old Italian
Ital.
sabbia
“sand”
Modern Italian
Italian
sabbia
“sand”