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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”),[1] a reference to the cords laid as the city's foundation boundaries, though this could be folk etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spár.tɛː/ → /ˈspar.ti/ → /ˈspar.ti/
Proper noun
Σπᾰ́ρτη • (Spártē) f (genitive Σπᾰ́ρτης); first declension
- Sparta, Sparti (a city in Laconia, Greece)
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- ^ Room, Adrian (2006) Place Names of the World, 2nd edition, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., →ISBN
Further reading
- “Σπάρτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σπάρτη (Spártē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspaɾti/
- Hyphenation: Σπάρ‧τη
Proper noun
Σπάρτη • (Spárti) f
- Sparta (large town in Laconia in Greece)
Declension
Declension of Σπάρτη
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nominative
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Σπάρτη (Spárti)
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genitive
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Σπάρτης (Spártis)
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accusative
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Σπάρτη (Spárti)
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vocative
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Σπάρτη (Spárti)
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Derived terms
Further reading