Sardinia

See also: Sardinía and Sardínia

English
Satellite view of the Italian island Sardinia.

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Sardinia, from Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), from its name in a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana Sea People. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century BCE identifies the island as shardan.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sardinia

  1. An island and region of Italy.
  2. An unincorporated town in Indiana.
  3. A village in Ohio.
  4. A town in New York.

Translations

References
  1. The Cambridge Ancient History →ISBN, page 369: "In the earliest Phoenician inscription found in Sardinia, that from Nora, probably of the ninth century B.C., although it is incomplete, the name of the island appears as Shardan (be-shardan), [...]"

Finnish

Proper noun

Sardinia

  1. Sardinia

Declension
Inflection of Sardinia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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 —
instructive — —
abessive Sardiniatta —
comitative — —

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ).

Proper noun

Sardinia f (genitive Sardiniae); first declension

  1. Sardinia

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Sardinia
Genitive Sardiniae
Dative Sardiniae
Accusative Sardiniam
Ablative Sardiniā
Vocative Sardinia
Locative Sardiniae
  • Sardī
  • Sardus
  • Sardōus
  • Sardonius
  • Sardiniānus
  • Sardiniensis

Descendants
Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sardinia

  1. Sardinia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sardinia

  1. Sardinia

Romanian

Proper noun

Sardinia f

  1. Sardinia (an island and region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension
declension of Sardinia (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) Sardinie Sardinia
genitive/dative (unei) Sardinii Sardiniei
vocative Sardinie, Sardinio
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