Sabine (first name)
Direction and origin of the name
Sabine comes from the Latin Nom
Sabinus , which translated a membership of the people of the
Sabins, in central Italy.
Sabine like name of anybody or first name
Holy Sabine
- Holy Sabine Martyr of the 2nd century in the honor of which, three centuries later, a rich person Romaine made raise on his properties a Basilique which exists still nowadays. She undergoes martyrdom to have buried Sainte Séraphie, her maidservant, she even persecuted because of her Christendom.
Another name of anybody
- Sabine, Roman empress, wife of Hadrian.
First name
Characters of fiction and works of art
Other uses of the name
- the Sabines: a ethnonyme. In the ancient Rome of Tite-Live, they are the girls of the Sabins, removed to provide wives to Romulus and his/her companions. The history will retain this episode under the name of Enlèvement of Sabines.
- the Sabine: type of French postage stamp of everyday usage under the septennate of Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1981). Engraving was inspired by it by the fabric of David.