σπάργανον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From σπάργω (spárgō, “to swaddle”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twist”), the same root of σπεῖρον (speîron, “burial shroud”) and σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spár.ɡa.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspar.ɡa.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/
Noun edit
σπᾰ́ργᾰνον • (spárganon) n (genitive σπᾰργᾰ́νου); second declension
- band for swathing infants
- (in the plural) swaddling clothes
- objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σπᾰ́ργᾰνον tò spárganon |
τὼ σπᾰργᾰ́νω tṑ spargánō |
τᾰ̀ σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ tà spárgana | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπᾰργᾰ́νου toû spargánou |
τοῖν σπᾰργᾰ́νοιν toîn spargánoin |
τῶν σπᾰργᾰ́νων tôn spargánōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπᾰργᾰ́νῳ tôi spargánōi |
τοῖν σπᾰργᾰ́νοιν toîn spargánoin |
τοῖς σπᾰργᾰ́νοις toîs spargánois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σπᾰ́ργᾰνον tò spárganon |
τὼ σπᾰργᾰ́νω tṑ spargánō |
τᾰ̀ σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ tà spárgana | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπᾰ́ργᾰνον spárganon |
σπᾰργᾰ́νω spargánō |
σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ spárgana | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- σπαργανίζω (sparganízō)
- σπαργάνιον (spargánion)
- σπαργανιώτης (sparganiṓtēs)
- σπαργανόω (sparganóō)
- σπαργάνωμα (spargánōma)
- σπαργάνωσις (spargánōsis)
- σπαργανωτέος (sparganōtéos)
Descendants edit
- → Latin: sparganum
Further reading edit
- “σπάργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σπάργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σπάργανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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