Sardinia
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Satellite view of the Italian island Sardinia.
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɑɹˈdɪniə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɑːˈdɪnɪə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: Sar‧din‧ia
Proper noun
Sardinia
- An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.
- A town in New York.
- A village in Washington Township, Brown County and Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
Meronyms
island and administrative region of Italy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
island of Italy
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See also
- (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto (Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)
References
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sardinia
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Declension
| Inflection of Sardinia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Sardinia | — | ||
| genitive | Sardinian | — | ||
| partitive | Sardiniaa | — | ||
| illative | Sardiniaan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Sardinia | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Sardinia | — | |
| gen. | Sardinian | |||
| genitive | Sardinian | — | ||
| partitive | Sardiniaa | — | ||
| inessive | Sardiniassa | — | ||
| elative | Sardiniasta | — | ||
| illative | Sardiniaan | — | ||
| adessive | Sardinialla | — | ||
| ablative | Sardinialta | — | ||
| allative | Sardinialle | — | ||
| essive | Sardiniana | — | ||
| translative | Sardiniaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Sardiniatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ).
Proper noun
Sardinia f sg (genitive Sardiniae); first declension
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Sardinia |
| Genitive | Sardiniae |
| Dative | Sardiniae |
| Accusative | Sardiniam |
| Ablative | Sardiniā |
| Vocative | Sardinia |
| Locative | Sardiniae |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: Sardenya
- Italian: Sardegna, Sardigna
- Spanish: Cerdeña
- Portuguese: Sardenha
- → English: Sardinia
- → German: Sardinien
- → Greek: Σαρδηνία (Sardinía)
- → Polish: Sardynia
- → Romanian: Sardinia
- → Russian: Сарди́ния (Sardínija)
References
- “Sardinia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Sardinia
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Sardinia
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
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Romanian
Proper noun
Sardinia f
- Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)
Declension
declension of Sardinia (singular only)
References
- Sardinia in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)