Sidon

See also: sidon, sidɔ́n, sídɔ́n, Sídon, and Sidón

English

Etymology

From Latin Sidon and Ancient Greek Σιδών (Sidṓn), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.dən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪdən

Proper noun

Sidon

1. (chiefly historical) Former name of Saïda: a city in Lebanon; a former city-state in Phoenicia.

Derived terms

• Sidonia
• Sidonian

Translations

city state of Phoenicia — see also Saïda

• Arabic: صَيْدَا (ṣaydā)
• Bulgarian: Сидон (Sidon)
• Catalan: Sidó
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西頓 / 西顿 (zh) (Xīdùn)

• Coptic: ⲥⲓⲇⲱⲛ (sidōn)
• Czech: Sidón
• Dutch: Sidon
• Esperanto: Cidono
• Finnish: Sidon
• French: Sidon (fr)
• Galician: Sidón
• Georgian: სიდონი (sidoni)
• German: Sidon (de), Zidon
• Greek: Σιδών f (Sidón), Σιδώνα f (Sidóna)

  Ancient Greek: Σιδών f (Sidṓn)

• Greenlandic: Sidon
• Hebrew: צידון (he) (Ṣīḏōn)
• Icelandic: Sídon
• Indonesian: Sidon
• Italian: Sidone
• Kapampangan: Sidon
• Korean: 시돈 (Sidon)
• Latin: Sīdōn f
• Lithuanian: Sidonas
• Lombard: Sidun
• Malayalam: സൈദാൻ (saidāṉ)
• Norwegian: Sidon
• Old Church Slavonic: Сїдѡнъ (Sidonŭ)
• Persian: صیدا (fa) (Seydâ)
• Phoenician: 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn)
• Polish: Sydon (pl)
• Portuguese: Sídon, Sidon, Sidom
• Romanian: Sidon
• Russian: Сидо́н (ru) m (Sidón)
• Scots: Sidon
• Scottish Gaelic: Sìdon m
• Serbo-Croatian: Sidon, Сидон
• Sicilian: Siduni
• Slovene: Sidon
• Spanish: Sidón (es)
• Turkish: Sayda (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: صیدا (Sayda)

• Ukrainian: Сідон (Sidon)
• Uzbek: Sayda
• Welsh: Sidon

Anagrams

• NODIS, donis, Indos, NOIDs, Donis, dinos, DINOs

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Sīdōn, from Ancient Greek Σιδών (Sidṓn), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.dɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Proper noun

Sidon f

1. Sidon (a city, a state of Levant in Phoenicia), now the modern day Saïda in Lebanon.

Derived terms

• Sidonie

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σιδών (Sidṓn), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.doːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.don]

Proper noun

Sīdōn f sg (genitive Sīdōnis); third declension

1. Sidon (a city-state in Levant in Phoenicia) (a Phoenician city in modern Lebanon)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sīdōn
genitive	Sīdōnis
dative	Sīdōnī
accusative	Sīdōnem
ablative	Sīdōne
vocative	Sīdōn
locative	Sīdōnī Sīdōne

Descendants

• English: Sidon (Zidon was a KJV-era Hebrew loan)
• Catalan: Sidó
• French: Sidon
• Italian: Sidone
• Ligurian: Sidón
• Lombard: Sidun
• Portuguese: Sídon
• Romanian: Sidon
• Sicilian: Siduni
• Spanish: Sidón

References

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

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sidon f

1. alternative spelling of Sídon