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sabbato

sabba

masc abl sg of sabba (pron)

1. sabba (pron): all; every
2. sabba (pron): everything; everyone; all
3. sabba (pron): whole; entire; complete
4. sabbato (ind): from everything
5. sabbato (ind): in every direction; from all sides; in every way
6. sabbato (ind): as everything; from everything; apart from everything
7. sabbato (pron): (gram) after all roots

Built from

• sabba — root · all, whole
  The PIE root *solw- (whole) appears in cognate languages with the sense of totality and completeness. The ablative case ending marks direction or source: 'from all'.

Analysis. Ablative form of sabba (all), used as an indeclinable adverb meaning 'from all sides' or 'in every direction'.

Etymology. From Indo-European *solw-o- (whole, entire). Cognates: Sanskrit sarva- (all), Greek holos (whole), Latin solidus (solid). The root sense is completeness and totality.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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