σπήλαιον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From the same Pre-Greek source as σπέος (spéos) and σπῆλυγξ (spêlunx).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spɛ̌ː.lai̯.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspe̝.lɛ.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.lɛ.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.le.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspi.le.on/
Noun edit
σπήλαιον • (spḗlaion) n (genitive σπελαίου); second declension
- grotto, cave, cavern
- den, lair
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 21:13:
- καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Γέγραπται ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.
- kaì légei autoîs, Gégraptai ho oîkós mou oîkos proseukhês klēthḗsetai; humeîs dè autòn poieîte spḗlaion lēistôn.
- And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (KJV)
- καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Γέγραπται ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σπήλαιον tò spḗlaion |
τὼ σπηλαίω tṑ spēlaíō |
τᾰ̀ σπήλαιᾰ tà spḗlaia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπηλαίου toû spēlaíou |
τοῖν σπηλαίοιν toîn spēlaíoin |
τῶν σπηλαίων tôn spēlaíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπηλαίῳ tôi spēlaíōi |
τοῖν σπηλαίοιν toîn spēlaíoin |
τοῖς σπηλαίοις toîs spēlaíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σπήλαιον tò spḗlaion |
τὼ σπηλαίω tṑ spēlaíō |
τᾰ̀ σπήλαιᾰ tà spḗlaia | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπήλαιον spḗlaion |
σπηλαίω spēlaíō |
σπήλαιᾰ spḗlaia | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
Descendants
References edit
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1382
Further reading edit
- σπήλαιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σπήλαιον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “σπήλαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4693 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.