Sardinia
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.[1]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɑɹˈdɪniə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɑːˈdɪnɪə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: Sar‧din‧ia
Proper noun
Sardinia
- An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.
- A town in New York.
- A village in Washington Township, Brown County and Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
Derived terms
Translations
island of Italy
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See also
- (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto (Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)
References
- The Cambridge Ancient History →ISBN, page 369: "In the earliest Phoenician inscription found in Sardinia, that from Nora, probably of the ninth century B.C., although it is incomplete, the name of the island appears as Shardan (be-shardan), [...]"
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑrdiniɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝rdiˌniɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): Sar‧di‧ni‧a
Declension
Inflection of Sardinia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Sardinia | — | ||
genitive | Sardinian | — | ||
partitive | Sardiniaa | — | ||
illative | Sardiniaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Sardinia | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Sardinia | — | |
gen. | Sardinian | |||
genitive | Sardinian | — | ||
partitive | Sardiniaa | — | ||
inessive | Sardiniassa | — | ||
elative | Sardiniasta | — | ||
illative | Sardiniaan | — | ||
adessive | Sardinialla | — | ||
ablative | Sardinialta | — | ||
allative | Sardinialle | — | ||
essive | Sardiniana | — | ||
translative | Sardiniaksi | — | ||
abessive | Sardiniatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ).
Proper noun
Sardinia f sg (genitive Sardiniae); first declension
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Sardinia |
Genitive | Sardiniae |
Dative | Sardiniae |
Accusative | Sardiniam |
Ablative | Sardiniā |
Vocative | Sardinia |
Locative | Sardiniae |
Related terms
- Sardiniensis
- Sardiniānus
- Sardonius
- Sardus
- Sardī
- Sardōus
Descendants
References
- “Sardinia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Related terms
- sardiniar
- sardinsk
Romanian
Proper noun
Sardinia f
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Declension
References
- Sardinia in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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