σποδός

Ancient Greek

Furnée connects it with ἄσβολος (ásbolos, “soot”) and σπολεύς (spoleús, “loaf”), leading to a Pre-Greek origin.

σποδός • (spodós) f (genitive σποδοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ἡ σποδός; τῆς σποδοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σποδός hē spodós	τὼ σποδώ tṑ spodṓ	αἱ σποδοί hai spodoí
Genitive	τῆς σποδοῦ tês spodoû	τοῖν σποδοῖν toîn spodoîn	τῶν σποδῶν tôn spodôn
Dative	τῇ σποδῷ tēî spodōî	τοῖν σποδοῖν toîn spodoîn	ταῖς σποδοῖς taîs spodoîs
Accusative	τὴν σποδόν tḕn spodón	τὼ σποδώ tṑ spodṓ	τᾱ̀ς σποδούς tā̀s spodoús
Vocative	σποδέ spodé	σποδώ spodṓ	σποδοί spodoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“σποδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σποδός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN