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See also: spöns

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔns/
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  • Hyphenation: spons
  • Rhymes: -ɔns

Noun

spons f (plural sponsen or sponzen, diminutive sponsje n)

  1. sponge

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: spons
  • Negerhollands: spons, sponsje
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sepons
  • → Papiamentu: spòns, spons
  • → Sranan Tongo: sponsu

See also

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch spons.

Noun

spons

  1. sponge (piece of porous material used for washing)
  2. sponge (animal)

Latin

Etymology

Possibly connected with spondeō (thus a pledging of one's self to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord).

Pronunciation

Noun

spōns f sg (genitive spontis); third declension

  1. free will, free accord, free impulse, voluntary or spontaneous action
    Synonyms: intentiō, cōgitātiō, voluntās, propositum, cōnsilium, mēns, animus
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.340–341:
      “Mē sī fāta meīs paterentur dūcere vītam
      auspiciīs et sponte meā compōnere cūrās, .”
      “If the Fates had let me live a life with my choices, and to order cares by my free will, ”

Usage notes

Only attested in the ablative and genitive, almost always in combination with a personal pronoun (meā sponte, suae spontis).

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative spōns
genitive spontis
dative spontī
accusative spontem
ablative sponte
vocative spōns

Derived terms

References

  • “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
  • spons in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

spons

  1. imperative of sponse
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