sard
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.
Noun edit
sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)
- (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).
Verb edit
sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)
- (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
- Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:
- Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.
- 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
- Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
- […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
- 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:
- Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.
Further reading edit
- John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)
- Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)
Noun edit
sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)
- Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)
Noun edit
sard m (uncountable)
- Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)
Related terms edit
- Sardenya (“Sardinia”)
Etymology 2 edit
By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.
Noun edit
sard m (plural sards)
- white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)
- Synonym: sarg
Further reading edit
- “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Central Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.
Adjective edit
sard
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)
Declension edit
Noun edit
sard m (plural sarzi)
- Sardinian (someone from Sardinia)
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sardus. Doublet of sardin and sardell.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sard c
- Sardinian (person from Sardinia)
Declension edit
Declension of sard | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sard | sarden | sarder | sarderna |
Genitive | sards | sardens | sarders | sardernas |