sardius

English

Noun

sardius (usually uncountable, plural sardiuses)

1. (mineralogy) sard
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:20:

     The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

Translations

a gemstone

• Finnish: sardi (fi)
• French: cornaline (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σάρδιον n (sárdion)

• Maori: harariu
• Welsh: sard m, sardiws m

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.di.us/, [ˈs̠ärd̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.di.us/, [ˈsärd̪ius]

Noun

sardius m (genitive sardiī or sardī); second declension

1. sardian, carnelian

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sardius	sardiī
Genitive	sardiī sardī1	sardiōrum
Dative	sardiō	sardiīs
Accusative	sardium	sardiōs
Ablative	sardiō	sardiīs
Vocative	sardie	sardiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “sardius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sardius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.