Dardani

== English == === Noun === Dardani pl (plural only) The Dardanian people. == Italian == === Etymology === Patronymic surname from the personal name Dardano. === Proper noun === Dardani m or f by sense a surname originating as a patronymic === Further reading === Stefano Ravara (2015–2026), Mappa dei Cognomi‎[3] == Latin == === Etymology === From or related to Proto-Albanian *dardā (“pear, pear tree”), from *darda (“to spill, pour”). In 1854, Johann Georg von Hahn was the first to propose that the names Dardani (German Dardaner) and Dardania were related to the Albanian word dάρδε̱ -α (“pear; pear-tree”), accusative dάρδε̱ -νε̱ (cf. modern dardhë (“pear; pear-tree”), stemming from Proto-Albanian *dardā). This is suggested by the fact that toponyms related to fruits or animals are not unknown in the region (cf. Alb. dele/delmë "sheep" supposedly related to Dalmatia, Ulcinj in Montenegro < Alb. ujk, ulk "wolf" etc.). A common Albanian toponym with the same root is Dardha, found in various parts of Albania. Dardha in Puka is recorded as Darda in a 1671 ecclesiastical report and on a 1688 map by a Venetian cartographer, and is also the name of an Albanian tribe in the northern part of Dibër. === Proper noun === Dardanī m pl (genitive Dardanōrum); second declension A Thraco-Illyrian tribe who inhabited a region in the Balkans. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only. === References === “Dardani”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press