Sardinia

Meanings

1. An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.
2. A town in New York.
3. A village in Washington Township, Brown County and Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio.
4. An unincorporated community in Indiana.

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.