σπογγιά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σπογγιή (spongiḗ) — Ionic
- σφογγιᾱ́ (sphongiā́)
Etymology
From σπόγγος (spóngos) + -ιά (-iá).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spoŋ.ɡi.ǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spoŋ.ɡiˈa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spoɲ.ɟiˈa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spoɲ.ɟiˈa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spoɲ.ɟiˈa/
Noun
σπογγῐᾱ́ • (spongĭā́) f (genitive σπογγῐᾶς); first declension
- sponge (marine animal)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σπογγῐᾱ́ hē spongĭā́ |
τὼ σπογγῐᾱ́ tṑ spongĭā́ |
αἱ σπογγῐαί hai spongĭaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σπογγῐᾶς tês spongĭâs |
τοῖν σπογγῐαῖν toîn spongĭaîn |
τῶν σπογγῐῶν tôn spongĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σπογγῐᾷ tēî spongĭāî |
τοῖν σπογγῐαῖν toîn spongĭaîn |
ταῖς σπογγῐαῖς taîs spongĭaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σπογγῐᾱ́ν tḕn spongĭā́n |
τὼ σπογγῐᾱ́ tṑ spongĭā́ |
τᾱ̀ς σπογγῐᾱ́ς tā̀s spongĭā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπογγῐᾱ́ spongĭā́ |
σπογγῐᾱ́ spongĭā́ |
σπογγῐαί spongĭaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: spongia (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- σπογγιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σπογγιά, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “σπογγιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.