英语
词源
save, sabi (“知道”)的变体，源自葡萄牙语或西班牙语 sabe (“他/她知道”)，源自saber (“知道”) ← 拉丁语 sapiō (“智慧的”)。
作为名词最早见于1785年。通过西印度群岛皮钦语借自法语 savez(-vous) (“你知道吗”), 葡萄牙语 (você) sabe (“你知道”)或西班牙语 (usted) sabe (“你知道”)，源自通俗拉丁语 *sapere ← 拉丁语 sapere (“智慧的，知道”) (参见sapient)。形容词最早见于1905年。
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形容词
savvy（比较级 savvier，最高级 savviest）
- (非正式) 精明的
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
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- insipid
- insipience
- insipient
- sapid
- sapience
- sapiens
- sapient
- savant
动词
savvy（第三人称单数简单现在时 savvies，现在分词 savvying，一般过去时及过去分词 savvied）
名词
savvy（不可数）
参考资料
- “savvy”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
洋泾浜英语
其他写法
- sarby
词源
源自澳门皮钦葡萄牙语 撒㗑 (saat3 baai3), 撒備 (saat3 bi6), 散拜 (saan2 baai3) ← 葡萄牙语 sabe。
动词
savvy
参考资料
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, 页108: “Savvy: (Portuguese) know; understand; No savvy ? Do you not understand ?”
