Σαρδώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From its name in a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, an indigenous name that likely had religious connotations.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σαρδώ • (Sardṓ) f (genitive Σαρδόος or Σαρδοῦς); third declension

  1. Sardinia

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σαρδώ; τῆς Σαρδόος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Σαρδώ
hē Sardṓ
Genitive τῆς Σαρδόος / Σαρδοῦς
tês Sardóos / Sardoûs
Dative τῇ Σαρδοῖ
têi Sardoî
Accusative τὴν Σαρδώ
tḕn Sardṓ
Vocative Σαρδοῖ
Sardoî
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Σαρδόνιος (Sardónios)
  • Σαρδονικός (Sardonikós)

Descendants

The typical Modern Greek name for Sardinia is Σαρδηνία (Sardinía).

References
  • Σαρδώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
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