sardine

sardine

See also: Sardine

English

Sardina pilchardus

Etymology

Borrowed from French sardine (compare Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardina; from Ancient Greek σαρδίνη (sardínē).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɑːˈdiːn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑɹˈdin/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

sardine (plural sardines)

1. Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine Sardina pilchardus (syn. Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine Sardinops sagax (syn. Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
2. (obsolete) carnelian
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Revelation 4:3:

     And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

3. (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.

Derived terms

• packed like sardines
• sardinelike
• sardiner

Translations

fish

Arabic: سَرْدِين‎ m (sardīn) Armenian: սարդինաձուկ (hy) (sardinajuk) Bengali: সার্ডীন (sarḍīn) Bulgarian: сарди́на f (sardína) Catalan: sardina (ca) f Chamicuro: apejta Chinese: Cantonese: 沙甸魚 (sā1dīn1yū4-2) Mandarin: 沙丁 (shādīng), 沙丁魚／沙丁鱼 (zh) (shādīngyú), 鰮／鳁 (zh)/鰛／鳁 (zh) (wēn), 鰮魚／鳁鱼, 鰮鱼／鳁鱼 (wēnyú) Min Nan: 鰮仔魚, 鳁仔鱼 (un-á-hî, un-á-hû) Cornish: hernen f Czech: sardinka (cs) f Danish: sardin c Dutch: sardien (nl) c Esperanto: sardino Finnish: sardiini (fi) French: sardine (fr) f Galician: sardiña (gl) f, xouba (gl) f (juvenile) Georgian: სარდინი (sardini) German: Sardine (de) f Greek: σαρδέλα (el) f (sardéla) Ancient: σαρδίνη f (sardínē) Gujarati: સાર્ડીન ? (sārḍīn) Hebrew: סלתנית‎ (saltanit) Hindi: सार्डीन ? (sārḍīn) Ido: sardino (io) Indonesian: sarden (id) Irish: sairdín m Italian: sardina (it) f, sarda (it) f, sardella f Japanese: 鰯 (ja) (いわし, iwashi), イワシ (iwashi), マイワシ (maiwashi), サーディン (sādin) Kannada: ಸಾರ್ಡೀನ್ (sārḍīn) Korean: 정어리 (ko) (jeong'eori) Latin: sarda f, sardina f Macedonian: сардина f (sardina) Malay: sardin Manx: pilshynagh m, sardeen m Maori: mohimohi Mi'kmaq: so'qomu'j anim Norman: sardinne f (Jersey), sardaenne f (Guernsey), sardène f (continental Normandy) Norwegian: Bokmål: sardin m Nynorsk: sardin m Piedmontese: sardin-a f Polish: sardynka (pl) f Portuguese: sardinha (pt) f Romanian: sardină f Russian: сарди́на (ru) f (sardína), иваси́ (ru) f (ivasí) Scottish Gaelic: geilmhin f, pillsear m, sàrdan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̀рдела f Roman: sàrdela (sh) f Sicilian: sarda (scn) f Sinhalese: සාර්ඩීන් (sārḍīn) Spanish: sardina (es) f Swedish: sardin (sv) c Tagalog: sardinas Tamil: ஸார்டீன் (sārṭīṉ) Telugu: సార్డీన్ (sārḍīn) Turkish: sardalya (tr) Ukrainian: сардинка f (sardynka) Urdu: سارڈین‎ (sārḍīn) Venetian: sardeła f, sarda f Vietnamese: cá mòi (vi) Welsh: pennog Mair m, sardîn m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sardine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Verb

sardine (third-person singular simple present sardines, present participle sardining, simple past and past participle sardined)

1. to fish for sardines
   • 1997, Peter Landesman, The raven: a novel:

     No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.

2. to pack or cram together tightly.
   • 1954, Tom McCahill, The modern sports car:

     Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!

   • 1986, The New Yorker - Volumen 62,

     Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?

   • 2007, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev: The Life:

     There were already six members of the Nureyev family living in a room sixteen meters square, the children sardined on one mattress on the floor, their parents separated by only a curtain.

Anagrams

• Adriens, Arnside, Draines, Draisen, derains, draines, indears, randies, reads in, sandier

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• sardien

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sardeyne, sardayne, sardine, from Latin sardina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɑrˈdi.nə/, /sɑrˈdin/

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• Hyphenation: sar‧di‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə, -in

Noun

sardine f (plural sardines, diminutive sardinetje n)

1. sardine, fish of the family Clupeidae

Derived terms

• sardineblik

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sardyn, sardien
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhèntyis
• → Papiamentu: saldinchi, sardinchi, sardin (Aruba)

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French

Etymology

From Latin sardina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʁ.din/

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Noun

sardine f (plural sardines)

1. sardine, pilchard
   • 1788, Jean-Jacques_Barthélemy, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce

     Les sardines sont ailleurs l'aliment du peuple ; celles que nous prenons aux environs de Phalère mériteraient d'être servies à la table des dieux, surtout quand on ne les laisse qu'un instant dans l'huile.

     The pilchards taken in other countries are the food of the common people ; those we catch in the vicinity of Phalerum are worthly of the table of the gods, especially when left to steep only for a moment in boiling oil.

2. tent peg, stake

Further reading

• “sardine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dineras, dîneras, draines, radines, ranidés, rendais

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Italian

Noun

sardine f

1. plural of sardina

Anagrams

• dresina, snidare, sniderà

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Latin

Adjective

sardīne

1. vocative masculine singular of sardīnus