Σαρδώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From its name in a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, an indigenous name that likely had religious connotations.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sar.dɔ̌ː/ → /sarˈðo/ → /sarˈðo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sar.dɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sarˈdo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sarˈðo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sarˈðo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sarˈðo/

Proper noun

Σαρδώ • (Sardṓ) f (genitive Σαρδόος or Σαρδοῦς or Σαρδόνος); third declension

1. Sardinia (an island in the western Mediterranean Sea, now in Italy)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σαρδώ; τῆς Σαρδόος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σαρδώ hē Sardṓ
Genitive	τῆς Σαρδόος / Σαρδοῦς tês Sardóos / Sardoûs
Dative	τῇ Σαρδοῖ têi Sardoî
Accusative	τὴν Σαρδώ tḕn Sardṓ
Vocative	Σαρδοῖ Sardoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ Σαρδώ; τῆς Σαρδόνος (Koine, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σαρδώ hē Sardṓ
Genitive	τῆς Σαρδόνος tês Sardónos
Dative	τῇ Σαρδόνῐ têi Sardóni
Accusative	τὴν Σαρδόνᾰ tḕn Sardóna
Vocative	Σαρδώ Sardṓ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σαρδόνιος (Sardónios)
• Σαρδονικός (Sardonikós)

Related terms

• Ἰχνοῦσσα (Ikhnoûssa)

 

Descendants

The typical Modern Greek name for Sardinia is Σαρδηνία (Sardinía).

• Greek: Σαρδώ (Sardó)

References

• “Σαρδώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Σαρδώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Σαρδώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024