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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σπείρω (speírō, “to sow, to scatter”) + -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spo.rǎː/ → /spoˈra/ → /spoˈra/
Noun
σπορᾱ́ • (sporā́) f (genitive σπορᾶς); first declension
- seed
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “σπορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σπορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σπορά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σπορά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- begetting idem, page 70.
- birth idem, page 79.
- breeding idem, page 97.
- child idem, page 129.
- descendant idem, page 214.
- descent idem, page 214.
- generation idem, page 356.
- lineage idem, page 493.
- offspring idem, page 571.
- origin idem, page 579.
- parentage idem, page 592.
- procreation idem, page 644.
- progeny idem, page 653.
- propagation idem, page 653.
- race idem, page 667.
- seed idem, page 749.
- seed-time idem, page 749.
- son idem, page 793.
- sowing idem, page 797.
- spawn idem, page 798.
- stock idem, page 818.