σάρδιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Σᾰ́ρδεις (Sắrdeis, “Sardis”) + -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix), because it was its place of origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sár.di.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsar.di.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsar.ði.on/
Noun
σᾰ́ρδῐον • (sắrdĭon) n (genitive σᾰρδῐ́ου); second declension
- (mineralogy) sardine; carnelian (used also as a seal)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σᾰ́ρδῐον tò sắrdĭon |
τὼ σᾰρδῐ́ω tṑ sărdĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ tằ sắrdĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σᾰρδῐ́ου toû sărdĭ́ou |
τοῖν σᾰρδῐ́οιν toîn sărdĭ́oin |
τῶν σᾰρδῐ́ων tôn sărdĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σᾰρδῐ́ῳ tōî sărdĭ́ōi |
τοῖν σᾰρδῐ́οιν toîn sărdĭ́oin |
τοῖς σᾰρδῐ́οις toîs sărdĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σᾰ́ρδῐον tò sắrdĭon |
τὼ σᾰρδῐ́ω tṑ sărdĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ tằ sắrdĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰ́ρδῐον sắrdĭon |
σᾰρδῐ́ω sărdĭ́ō |
σᾰ́ρδῐᾰ sắrdĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “σάρδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάρδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN