σπατάγγης
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- πᾰ́τᾰγγας (pátangas)
Etymology edit
Hardly related to σπάω (spáō, “to suck”). The variation shows that the word is Pre-Greek. For the formation, compare also φαττάγης (phattágēs, “pangolin”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spa.táŋ.ɡɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spaˈtaŋ.ɡe̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spaˈtaɲ.ɟis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spaˈtaɲ.ɟis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spaˈtaɲ.ɟis/
Noun edit
σπᾰτᾰ́γγης • (spatángēs) m (genitive σπᾰτᾰ́γγου); first declension
- kind of sea urchin
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σπᾰτᾰ́γγης ho spatángēs |
τὼ σπᾰτᾰ́γγᾱ tṑ spatángā |
οἱ σπᾰτᾰ́γγαι hoi spatángai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπᾰτᾰ́γγου toû spatángou |
τοῖν σπᾰτᾰ́γγαιν toîn spatángain |
τῶν σπᾰτᾰγγῶν tôn spatangôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπᾰτᾰ́γγῃ tôi spatángēi |
τοῖν σπᾰτᾰ́γγαιν toîn spatángain |
τοῖς σπᾰτᾰ́γγαις toîs spatángais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σπᾰτᾰ́γγην tòn spatángēn |
τὼ σπᾰτᾰ́γγᾱ tṑ spatángā |
τοὺς σπᾰτᾰ́γγᾱς toùs spatángās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπᾰτᾰ́γγη spatángē |
σπᾰτᾰ́γγᾱ spatángā |
σπᾰτᾰ́γγαι spatángai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- σπᾰτᾰγγῐ́ζω (spatangízō)
Descendants edit
- → Translingual: Spatangus
Further reading edit
- “σπατάγγης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπατάγγης 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