different between sardius vs sard

English

Noun

sardius (usually uncountable, plural sardiuses)

1. (mineralogy) sard

   • The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sar.di.us/, [?s?ärd?i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sar.di.us/, [?s?rd?ius]

Noun

sardius m (genitive sardi? or sard?); second declension

1. sardian, carnelian

Declension

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• sardius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sardius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Further reading

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

Anagrams

• ADRs, ARDS, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?sart/

Etymology 1

From Latin sardus.

Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

Related terms

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

Noun

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

• “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sard” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

Adjective

sard (sard)

1. cold