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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of fungus.
Pronunciation
Noun
spongia f (genitive spongiae); first declension
- A sponge.
- (by extension) pumice, or other things resembling a sponge.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spongia 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)
- spongia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “spongia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “spongia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin