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Sardinian, a. and n.|sɑːˈdɪnɪən|
[f. Sardinia (see below) + -an.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or pertaining to Sardinia, i.e. either the large island adjacent to Corsica, or the kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1859), which had its capital at Turin, and included the island of Sardinia as well as Piedmont and adjacent territories.
1748H. Walpole Let. to Mann 29 Apr., The Sardinian Minister has refused to sign too. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 342 The Sardinian States. The dominions of the King of Sardinia consist of 51 provinces in all. 1851Life A. Gentili 228 At the Sardinian chapel in London, he twice preached..for two consecutive Sundays. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), Sardinian Huts, wooden huts made by many English officers in the Crimea and by the Sardinians for their men.
b. Designating a Romance language (or group of dialects) spoken by the Sardinians.
1835G. C. Lewis Origin & Formation Romance Lang. i. 48 Niebuhr..says that ‘specimens of the Sardinian language from the civilized districts exhibit peculiarities which are more than varieties of dialect’. 1960W. D. Elcock Romance Lang. v. 474 In..perceiving that the ‘outlandish’ character of Sardinian speech lay in its approximation to Latin the poet-philologist [Dante] had almost divined the truth concerning the origin of the Romance languages. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 1029/1 It is sometimes said that these last two [sc. Sassarian and Gallurian] are not Sardinian dialects but rather Corsican.
c. Sardinian warbler, a black, brown, and white warbler, Sylvia melanocephala, found in the Mediterranean region.
1909C. Whymper Egyptian Birds 209 Sardinian Warbler..Rare. 1954D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 150 In Sicily..the Sardinian warbler is the commonest warbler. 1971Country Life 1 July 27/3 Our most familiar sounds by day were..the chatter of Sardinian warblers among the mastic bushes.
†2.
a. Used for sardonian, sardonic.
b. transl. of L. sardonius, as the epithet of the plant producing ‘sardonic’ laughter. Obs.
1615Chapman Odyss. xx. 457 A laughter..most Sardinian, With scorn and wrath mix'd. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. vii. 61 May I become..Rough as a Bur, deform'd like him who chaws Sardinian Herbage to contract his Jaws. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 188 ⁋4 What the Latins call Sardinian Laughter, a distortion of the face without gladness of heart.
¶3. Sardinian acorn, Sardinian nut = Sardian acorn, nut.
1895in T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gard. 1897in Syd. Soc. Lex.
B. n.
1. An inhabitant of the island or of the kingdom of Sardinia.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. iv. xii. (1622) 109 All the contention rested betwixt the Sardinians & Smyrnæans. 1748H. Walpole Let. to Mann 29 Apr., The Sardinian to have the cessions made to him by the Queen. 1793Burke Policy of Allies Wks. VII. 142 Bands of English, Spaniards, Neapolitans, Sardinians [etc.]. 1908Daily News 29 Sept. 4 The Siberians and Sardinians [sc. foxes] that are introduced from time to time.
2. A Romance language (or group of dialects) spoken in Sardinia.
1813Q. Rev. Oct. 259 Bolognese.., Sicilian.., Sardinian. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 427/1 A book was published at Cagliari, in both Sardinian and Italian, called ‘Moriografia Sarda’. 1894W. M. Lindsay Latin Lang. ii. 34 Short ŭ and ō of Latin are distinguished not only in Sardinian.., but also in Roumanian and in the Latin element of the Albanian language. 1932G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. iv. 52 French was permitted for the Savoyards and Valdostani, Genoese for the Ligurians, and Sardinian for the Sards. 1965W. S. Allen Vox Latina i. 25 At what period such a [phonetic] change took place it is impossible to say, but Sardinian suggests that it was very late. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 1026/1 On linguistic grounds Sardinian (not the language of an independent nation since the 14th century) and Occitan (the medieval Provençal) are usually regarded as languages rather than dialects. Ibid. 1029/1 The first documents in Sardinian are legal contracts dating from about 1080. |