The island Sifnos took its name from the son of the Attican hero Sounio and the first inhabitant of the island. According to another version, the word Sifnos comes from the ancient greek word «sifnos», which mean empty / hollow (most likely due to its mines and quarries). The Latin Pliny said that a long…
The name “Sérifos” comes from the ancient Greek word “stérifos”, meaning means “sterile” (other connotations are “deprived”, “I do not have” conceptually leading to the meaning “infertile”). The ancient Greeks called the island like this because it was very dry. The first inhabitants of the island were the Aeolians from Thesalía in the 8th century…