σάρδιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Σάρδεις (Sárdeis, “Sardis”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because it was its place of origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sár.di.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsar.di.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
Noun
σᾰ́ρδῐον • (sárdion) n (genitive σᾰρδῐ́ου); second declension
- (mineralogy) sardine, carnelian, used also as a seal
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σᾰ́ρδῐον tò sárdion |
τὼ σᾰρδῐ́ω tṑ sardíō |
τᾰ̀ σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ tà sárdia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σᾰρδῐ́ου toû sardíou |
τοῖν σᾰρδῐ́οιν toîn sardíoin |
τῶν σᾰρδῐ́ων tôn sardíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σᾰρδῐ́ῳ tôi sardíōi |
τοῖν σᾰρδῐ́οιν toîn sardíoin |
τοῖς σᾰρδῐ́οις toîs sardíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σᾰ́ρδῐον tò sárdion |
τὼ σᾰρδῐ́ω tṑ sardíō |
τᾰ̀ σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ tà sárdia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰ́ρδῐον sárdion |
σᾰρδῐ́ω sardíō |
σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ sárdia | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σάρδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάρδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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