sardus

Latin

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate language *sard, *shard, connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana Sea People.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.dus/, [ˈs̠ärd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.dus/, [ˈsärd̪us]

Adjective

sardus (feminine sarda, neuter sardum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Sardinian

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sardus	sarda	sardum		sardī	sardae	sarda
genitive	sardī	sardae	sardī		sardōrum	sardārum	sardōrum
dative	sardō	sardae	sardō		sardīs
accusative	sardum	sardam	sardum		sardōs	sardās	sarda
ablative	sardō	sardā	sardō		sardīs
vocative	sarde	sarda	sardum		sardī	sardae	sarda

Descendants

• Catalan: sard
• French: sarde
• Galician: sardo
• Italian: sardo
• Romanian: sard
• Portuguese: sardo
• Sardinian: Sardu
• Sicilian: sardu
• Spanish: sardo

References

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