savvy – English noun declension

English noun forms of savvy

Noun: savvy
Singularsavvy

Sample Sentences

Etymology

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. See: Portuguese Nouns 'sabe', Latin Nouns 'sapiō'.

Verbs referencing "savvy"

Spanish Nouns saber.