σπανός

Adjectival formation from σπάνις (spánis, “rarity, scarcity”) +‎ -ός (-ós). Related to synonymous σπάνιος (spánios).

σπᾰνός • (spănós) m (feminine σπᾰνή, neuter σπᾰνόν); first/second declension

1. (Koine) rare, sparse
2. (Byzantine) beardless

• σπανοσιτίᾱ (spanositíā)
• σπανοκαρπίᾱ (spanokarpíā)
• σπάνυδρος (spánudros)

• Greek: σπανός (spanós)
• → Aromanian: spãn
• →⇒ English: spanaemia, spanophilia
• → Romanian: spân

• σπανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σπανός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “σπανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “σπανός”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 1002

From Byzantine Greek σπανός (spanós), from the first component of Koine Greek σπανοπώγων (spanopṓgōn, “who has a sparse beard”) (see πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”) for the second component),^[1] further from σπάνιος (spánios, “rare, scarce”).^[2] Alternatively, directly from σπάνιος (spánios), with the same formation pattern seen in ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) < ὄρθιος (órthios, “id”).^[3]

Despite similar phonetics and semantics, not related to σπαρνός (sparnós, “sparse, rare”) or Latvian spārns (“wing”). However, compare Romanian spân (“hairless”), Aromanian spãn, Sicilian spanu, which may derive from the same Ancient Greek root, possibly via a Vulgar Latin intermediate.

• IPA^(key): /spaˈnos/
• Hyphenation: σπα‧νός

σπανός • (spanós) m (feminine σπανή, neuter σπανό)

1. hairless

• σπανομαρία f (spanomaría)
• Σπανός (Spanós) (a surname)