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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *spor-, an o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Cognate with σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”), σπέρμα (spérma, “semen, sperm”), and Albanian farë; see σπείρω (speírō) for more.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spó.ros/ → /ˈspo.ros/ → /ˈspo.ros/
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (genitive σπόρου); second declension
- a sowing
- the time for sowing
- seed
- produce, harvest, crop
- offspring
- semen
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “σπόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4703 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros).
Pronunciation
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (plural σπόροι)
- (botany) seed (of a plant)
- (biology) sperm, seed
- (figuratively) seed (of an idea)
Declension
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