σαρδόνυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σάρδιον (sárdion) +‎ ὄνυξ (ónux)

Noun

σαρδόνυξ • (sardónux) m (genitive σαρδόνῠχος); third declension

1. sardonyx
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 216
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 5.46
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, AP 1.116
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 3.7.5
   • 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 5.5.7
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Apoc. 21.20
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 20.4

Declension

Third declension of ὁ σαρδόνῠξ; τοῦ σαρδόνῠχος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σαρδόνῠξ ho sardónŭx	τὼ σαρδόνῠχε tṑ sardónŭkhe	οἱ σαρδόνῠχες hoi sardónŭkhes
Genitive	τοῦ σαρδόνῠχος toû sardónŭkhos	τοῖν σαρδονῠ́χοιν toîn sardonŭ́khoin	τῶν σαρδονῠ́χων tôn sardonŭ́khōn
Dative	τῷ σαρδόνῠχῐ tôi sardónŭkhĭ	τοῖν σαρδονῠ́χοιν toîn sardonŭ́khoin	τοῖς σαρδόνῠξῐ / σαρδόνῠξῐν toîs sardónŭxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν σαρδόνῠχᾰ tòn sardónŭkhă	τὼ σαρδόνῠχε tṑ sardónŭkhe	τοὺς σαρδόνῠχᾰς toùs sardónŭkhăs
Vocative	σαρδόνῠξ sardónŭx	σαρδόνῠχε sardónŭkhe	σαρδόνῠχες sardónŭkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: sardonyx
• Greek: σαρδόνυχας (sardónychas)

References

• “σαρδόνυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G4557 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible