Sard, a. and n.2
(sɑːd)
Also ‖ Sarde.
[ad. It. Sardo, L. Sardus.]
A. adj. = Sardinian a. and n.
| 1823 W. Robinson in J.A. Heraud Voy. & Mem. Midshipm. viii. 142 The Sard costume. 1861 J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. ii. xiii. (1875) 464 Little wiry Sard horses. |
B. n.
1. = Sardinian n. 1
| 1822 W. Robinson in J.A. Heraud Voy. & Mem. Midshipm. v. (1837) 81 Boats manned by Genoese, French, Sards, and Neapolitans. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 318/2 The Sards are greatly attached to the pleasures of the table. 1889 C. Edwardes Sardinia & Sardes vi. 147 The foreman was a Sarde of an advanced type. 1932 [see Sardinian n. 2]. 1968 Listener 29 Feb. 267/1 No Sard will betray another... There's the unwritten law of omerta, of silence. |
2. = Sardinian n. 2.
| 1885 [see Logudoro]. 1889 C. Edwardes Sardinia & Sardes iii. 59 Modern Sarde is what Sardinia's conquerors made it—a language much more nearly kin to Latin than Italian. 1957 Whitaker's Almanack 1958 899/1 Sard, the dialect of Sardinia, is accorded by some authorities the status of a distinct Romance language. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 452/4 Gramsci was a humane and intelligent man, but in no sense an ‘authority’ on anything except Mussolini's prisons and Sard. |