sponda
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin sponda. Compare Catalan espona (“bedside”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponda f (plural sponde)
- bank, riparian (of a river)
- shore
- 1981, Franco Battiato (lyrics and music), “Summer On A Solitary Beach”, in La voce del padrone:
- Mare mare mare voglio annegare / portami lontano a naufragare / via via via da queste sponde / portami lontano sulle onde
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- side
- bedstead
Further reading
edit- sponda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *sponda (“frame”), from Proto-Indo-European *spond-h₂-. Related to Welsh ffon.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈs̠pɔn̪d̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈspɔn̪d̪ä]
Noun
editsponda f (genitive spondae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sponda | spondae |
Genitive | spondae | spondārum |
Dative | spondae | spondīs |
Accusative | spondam | spondās |
Ablative | spondā | spondīs |
Vocative | sponda | spondae |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sponda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sponda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sponda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sponda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/onda
- Rhymes:Italian/onda/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian terms with quotations
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns