sard
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑː(ɹ)d/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)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)
- (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- 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 *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).
Verb
sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)
- (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
- Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152:
- Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.
- 1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
- Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
- […] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
- 1617, Howell, Letters, page 17:
- Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.
Further reading
- John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101
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Etymology 1
Adjective
sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)
- Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)
Noun
sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)
- Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)
Noun
sard m (uncountable)
- 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)
- 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, 2024
- “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.
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Etymology
Related to Persian سرد (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.
Adjective
sard
Etymology
Adjective
sard m or n (feminine singular sardă, masculine plural sarzi, feminine and neuter plural sarde)
Declension
Noun
sard m (plural sarzi)
- Sardinian (someone from Sardinia)
Declension
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Pronunciation
Noun
sard c
- Sardinian (person from Sardinia)
Declension
Declension of sard
Synonyms
Related terms
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