Etymology

sardoin

S1A1R1D2O1I1N1

Today it means: sard (a variety of carnelian) Full definition →

Middle English sardoyne, sardone ← Old French sardoine, sardone ← Anglo-Norman sardonie
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsardonyx
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromsardonie
  3. Old French · derived fromsardoine, sardone
  4. Middle English · inherited fromsardoyne, sardone
  5. English todaysardoin

Inherited from Middle English sardoyne, sardone, from Old French sardoine, sardone (whence Modern French sardoine) or Anglo-Norman sardonie, ultimately from Latin sardonyx. Doublet of sardonyx.

Words from the same roots

Latinsardonyx all →

sardonyx

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.