'Sardine' first appeared in English in the 15th century, a loanword from French "sardine," derived from Latin "sardina", from Ancient Greek "σαρδίνη" ("sardínē") or "σαρδῖνος" ("sardínos"), said to be from the Greek "Sardò" ("Σαρδώ"), indicating the island of Sardinia. Athenaios quotes a fragmentary passage from Aristotle mentioning the fish "sardinos", referring to the sardine or pilchard. However, Sardinia is around 800 miles (1300 km) distant from Athens; Ernest Klein in his "Etymological Dictionary of the English Language" (1971) writes, "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."