sardius

sardius (usually uncountable, plural sardiuses)

1. (mineralogy) sard
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:20:

     The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsar.di.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsar.d̪i.us]

sardius m (genitive sardiī or sardī); second declension

1. sardian, carnelian

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “sardius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sardius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.