σπορά
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σπείρω (speírō, “to sow, to scatter”) + -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spo.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spoˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spoˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spoˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spoˈra/
Noun
σπορᾱ́ • (sporā́) f (genitive σπορᾶς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σπορᾱ́ hē sporā́ |
τὼ σπορᾱ́ tṑ sporā́ |
αἱ σποραί hai sporaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σπορᾶς tês sporâs |
τοῖν σποραῖν toîn sporaîn |
τῶν σπορῶν tôn sporôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σπορᾷ tēî sporāî |
τοῖν σποραῖν toîn sporaîn |
ταῖς σποραῖς taîs sporaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σπορᾱ́ν tḕn sporā́n |
τὼ σπορᾱ́ tṑ sporā́ |
τᾱ̀ς σπορᾱ́ς tā̀s sporā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σπορᾱ́ sporā́ |
σπορᾱ́ sporā́ |
σποραί sporaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σποράς (sporás)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Latin: spora
- Catalan: espora
- → Czech: spora
- → Dutch: spoor (see there for further descendants)
- → English: spore
- → Thai: สปอร์ (sà-bpɔɔ)
- French: spore
- → Persian: اسپور (espor)
- → Turkish: spor
- → German: Spore
- → Hungarian: spóra
- → Irish: spór
- Italian: spora
- → Norwegian Bokmål: spore
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: spore
- → Polish: spora
- Portuguese: esporo
- Romanian: spor
- → Slovene: spora
- Spanish: espora
- → Swedish: spor
- → Russian: спо́ра (spóra)
- → Ukrainian: спо́ра (spóra)
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[1], 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.