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Latin
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sphaera f (genitive sphaerae); first declension
- ball, globe, sphere
- a globe of the heavens
- a ball for playing
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sphaera 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)
- sphaera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sphaera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sphaera”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 613