σπόγγος
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Together with Latin fungus (“mushroom, fungus”) and Old Armenian սունկն (sunkn, “tree-mushroom”) a Mediterranean–Pontic Pre-Greek substrate loanword.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spóŋ.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspoŋ.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspoŋ.ɡos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspoŋ.ɡos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspoŋ.ɡos/
Noun edit
σπόγγος • (spóngos) m (genitive σπόγγου); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σπόγγος ho spóngos |
τὼ σπόγγω tṑ spóngō |
οἱ σπόγγοι hoi spóngoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπόγγου toû spóngou |
τοῖν σπόγγοιν toîn spóngoin |
τῶν σπόγγων tôn spóngōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπόγγῳ tôi spóngōi |
τοῖν σπόγγοιν toîn spóngoin |
τοῖς σπόγγοις toîs spóngois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σπόγγον tòn spóngon |
τὼ σπόγγω tṑ spóngō |
τοὺς σπόγγους toùs spóngous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπόγγε spónge |
σπόγγω spóngō |
σπόγγοι spóngoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- σπογγιᾱ́ (spongiā́)
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: إِسْفَنْج (ʔisfanj) (see there for further descendants)
- → Aramaic: אספוגא
- Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܘܓܐ (ʾespōḡā)
- → Hebrew: ספוג (səfog)
- → Old Armenian: սպունգ (spung)
- Armenian: սպունգ (spung)
- ⇒ Greek: σφουγγάρι (sfoungári) (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 586–587
Further reading edit
- “σπόγγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπόγγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σπόγγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4699 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.