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-s (1) Plural marker. Taken from the -s in the Latin accusative plural endings -as, -es, and -os, and generalized across all Spanish nouns.
-s (2) Adverbial marker. Penny (2002) writes: "This so-called 'adverbial s' has its origins in a number of Latin adverbs which, for a variety of reasons, ended in /s/." Because s was so ubiquitous during the period of Old Spanish, it was mistakenly generalized to be a marker of adverbs and applied to any that lacked it, like antes (Old Spanish ante) and entonces (Old Spanish entonz).
sabelotodo (Noun) "know-it-all" A calque from English know-it-all. A 19th cent. verbal moniker used chiefly in the United States. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
saber (Verb) "to know" 8th cent. Very Old Spanish saber "to know," "to be flavorful." From Latin sapere "to taste," but in Vulgar Latin with a sense of "to know." From Proto-Italic *sap-i- "to taste," "to know." From Proto-Indo-European *sHp-i̯- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian saber, Portuguese saber, Galician saber, Catalan saber, French savoir, Italian sapere, Sardinian sapere Italic Oscan sipus "knowledge," Volscian sepu "through knowledge" Germanic Old Norse sefi "mind," Old High German int-seffen "to taste," Old Saxon an-sebbian "to notice," Old English sefa "understanding" Hellenic Ancient Greek ἕπω (hépo) "I am busy" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit sápati "to mind," Avestan haftī "he holds" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
sabido (Adjective) "learned," "known" 14th cent. From saber. Also the origin of the surnames Sabido and Savido, originally given to people distinguished for their wisdom. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Tibón, G. Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos. Editorial Diana: Mexico. 1988.
sabiduría f. (Noun) "wisdom" 13th cent. From saber. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
saca (1) f. (Noun) "extraction" 10th cent. Originally meaning a legal right to retraction, as handed by the courts. It probably comes from Gothic *saka "dispute" as a putative word for legal challenges (compare Old Saxon saka "lawsuit," Old Norse sǫk 'id.'). Derived from sakan "to dispute." Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
saca (2) m. (Noun) "large sack" Very late 15th cent. From saco. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
sacar (Verb) "to extract," "to remove" 10th cent. The word probably originates in Iberian courts. In the earliest texts, the word meant "to obtain through legal channels," which corresponds to the ancient noun saca "judicial fine," "right of retraction" (see saca (1)). Because of its legal history, the best theory is the word derives from Gothic sakan "to dispute," which may have been a term for legal disputes during the Gothic period. From Proto-Germanic *sakan- "to charge." From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂g- "to confront," "to discern" (in religious and legal spheres). Indo-European Italic Latin sagus "prophetic" Celtic Old Irish saigid "to claim," Middle Welsh haeðu "to strive" Germanic Gothic sakan "to reprimand," Old High German sahhan "to argue," Old Saxon sakan "to rebuke" Hellenic Ancient Greek ἡγέομαι (hegéomai) "to direct" "On the basis of the original use of sacar as a legal term meaning 'to obtain judicially; to exempt,' Corominas had linked this verb to the documented Gothic legal term SAKAN 'to dispute, rebuke, reprimand', rejecting the long-accepted connection with the family of [Latin] SACCUS." ~ S. Dworkin, A History of the Spanish Language (2012) (citations omitted) Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dworkin, S. N. A History of the Spanish Lexicon: A Linguistic Perspective. Oxford University Press. 2012. Kroonen, G. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
saco m. (Noun) "sack" 13th cent. From Latin saccus 'id.,' borrowed from Ancient Greek σάκκος ‎(sákkos) 'id.' Borrowed from a Semitic source, probably Phoenician. Compare Ancient Hebrew śaq "cloth," "bag;" Ancient Egyptian saq "bag." Indo-European Romance Western Vuglar Latin Portuguese saco, French sac, Italian sacco, Aromanian sac, Romanian sac, Sardinian sacu Basque Basque zaku "sack," borrowed from Latin saccus Afro-Asiatic Egyptian Ancient Egyptian saq "bag," Coptic soq 'id.' Semitic Ancient Hebrew śaq "cloth," "bag" Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.