σαρδόνυξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σάρδιον (sárdion) +‎ ὄνυξ (ónux)

Noun

σαρδόνυξ • (sardónux) m (genitive σαρδόνῠχος); third declension

1. sardonyx
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 216
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 5.46
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, AP 1.116
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 3.7.5
   • 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 5.5.7
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Apoc. 21.20
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 20.4

Declension

Third declension of ὁ σαρδόνῠξ; τοῦ σαρδόνῠχος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σαρδόνῠξ ho sardónux	τὼ σαρδόνῠχε tṑ sardónukhe	οἱ σαρδόνῠχες hoi sardónukhes
Genitive	τοῦ σαρδόνῠχος toû sardónukhos	τοῖν σαρδονῠ́χοιν toîn sardonúkhoin	τῶν σαρδονῠ́χων tôn sardonúkhōn
Dative	τῷ σαρδόνῠχῐ tôi sardónukhi	τοῖν σαρδονῠ́χοιν toîn sardonúkhoin	τοῖς σαρδόνῠξῐ / σαρδόνῠξῐν toîs sardónuxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σαρδόνῠχᾰ tòn sardónukha	τὼ σαρδόνῠχε tṑ sardónukhe	τοὺς σαρδόνῠχᾰς toùs sardónukhas
Vocative	σαρδόνῠξ sardónux	σαρδόνῠχε sardónukhe	σαρδόνῠχες sardónukhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: sardonyx
• Greek: σαρδόνυχας (sardónychas)

References

• “σαρδόνυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G4557 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible