Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
verb
To understand.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryShrewdness.
Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
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