σπόρος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *spor-, an o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Cognate with σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”), σπέρμα (spérma, “semen, sperm”), and Albanian farë; see σπείρω (speírō) for more.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spó.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (genitive σπόρου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σπόρος ho spóros |
τὼ σπόρω tṑ spórō |
οἱ σπόροι hoi spóroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σπόρου toû spórou |
τοῖν σπόροιν toîn spóroin |
τῶν σπόρων tôn spórōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σπόρῳ tôi spórōi |
τοῖν σπόροιν toîn spóroin |
τοῖς σπόροις toîs spórois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σπόρον tòn spóron |
τὼ σπόρω tṑ spórō |
τοὺς σπόρους toùs spórous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπόρε spóre |
σπόρω spórō |
σπόροι spóroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σπείρω (> DER > With an o-grade... > σπόρος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1379-80
Further reading
- “σπόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4703 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros).
Pronunciation
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (plural σπόροι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | σπόρος (spóros) | σπόροι (spóroi) |
| genitive | σπόρου (spórou) | σπόρων (spóron) |
| accusative | σπόρο (spóro) | σπόρους (spórous) |
| vocative | σπόρε (spóre) | σπόροι (spóroi) |
Further reading
σπόρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
