Noun: savin
| Singular | savin |
| Plural | savins |
Sample Sentences
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th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine, and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like savin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English savyne, from Old French savine, from Latin sabīna. Compare Old English safine. See: Middle English Nouns '
savyne', Middle English Nouns '
savyne', Latin Nouns '
sabīna', Old English Nouns '
safine'.