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English
Noun
spondeus (plural spondei)
- Archaic form of spondee.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeîos, “spondee”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spondēus m (genitive spondēī); second declension
- spondee
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “spondeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spondeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spondeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.