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sar⋅dine

1  [sahr-deen]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -dine, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -dines.
1. the pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, often preserved in oil and used for food.
2. any of various similar, closely related fishes of the herring family Clupeidae.
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Origin:
1400–50; late ME sardeine < MF sardine < L sardīna, deriv. of sarda sardine, n. use of fem. of Sardus Sardinian
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sar⋅dine

2  [sahr-dahyn, -dn]
–noun
sard.
Origin:
1300–50; ME (< LL sardīnus) < Gk sárdinos sardius

sard

  [sahrd]
–noun
a reddish-brown chalcedony, used as a gem.
Also, sardius, sardine.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L sarda < Gk sárdios sardius
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sar·dine   (sär-dēn')   
n.  

  1. Any of various small or half-grown edible herrings or related fishes of the family Clupeidae, frequently canned in oil or water, especially the pilchard of European waters.

  2. Any of numerous small, silvery, edible freshwater or marine fishes unrelated to the sardine.

tr.v.   sar·dined, sar·din·ing, sar·dines Slang
To pack tightly; cram: "The bars are sardined with hungry hopefuls" (Gael Greene).

[Middle English sardin, from Old French sardine, from Latin sardīna, from sarda, a kind of fish, ultimately from Greek Sardō, Sardinia.]
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Word Origin & History

sardine 
c.1430, from L. sardina, from Gk. sardine, sardinos, often said to be from Sardo "Sardinia" (see Sardinia), the Mediterranean island, near which the fish were probably caught and from which they were exported. But cf. Klein: "It is hardly probable that the Greeks would have obtained fish from so far as Sardinia at a time relatively so early as that of Aristotle, from whom Athenaios quotes a passage in which the fish sardinos is mentioned." Colloquial phrase packed like sardines (in a tin) is recorded from 1911.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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