σπάρος

Ancient Greek

Unknown. Perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to σμαρίς (smarís).^[1]^[2]

σπάρος • (spáros) m (genitive σπάρου); second declension

Second declension of ὁ σπᾰ́ρος; τοῦ σπᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σπᾰ́ρος ho spắros	τὼ σπᾰ́ρω tṑ spắrō	οἱ σπᾰ́ροι hoi spắroi
Genitive	τοῦ σπᾰ́ρου toû spắrou	τοῖν σπᾰ́ροιν toîn spắroin	τῶν σπᾰ́ρων tôn spắrōn
Dative	τῷ σπᾰ́ρῳ tōî spắrōi	τοῖν σπᾰ́ροιν toîn spắroin	τοῖς σπᾰ́ροις toîs spắrois
Accusative	τὸν σπᾰ́ρον tòn spắron	τὼ σπᾰ́ρω tṑ spắrō	τοὺς σπᾰ́ρους toùs spắrous
Vocative	σπᾰ́ρε spắre	σπᾰ́ρω spắrō	σπᾰ́ροι spắroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “σπάρος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1376–1377
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “σπάρος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 83

Inherited from Ancient Greek σπάρος (spáros, “annular seabream”). The figurative sense is probably from this.^[1]

σπάρος • (spáros) m (plural σπάροι)

^ σπάρος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language