σπόγγος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Together with Latin fungus (“mushroom, fungus”) and Old Armenian սունկն (sunkn, “tree-mushroom”) a Mediterranean–Pontic Pre-Greek substrate loanword.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σπόγγος • (spóngos) m (genitive σπόγγου, diminutive σπογγῐ́ον); second declension

  1. sponge
  2. (anatomy) tonsil

Declension

Second declension of ὁ σπόγγος; τοῦ σπόγγου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ σπόγγος
ho spóngos 		τὼ σπόγγω
tṑ spóngō 		οἱ σπόγγοι
hoi spóngoi
Genitive τοῦ σπόγγου
toû spóngou 		τοῖν σπόγγοιν
toîn spóngoin 		τῶν σπόγγων
tôn spóngōn
Dative τῷ σπόγγῳ
tōî spóngōi 		τοῖν σπόγγοιν
toîn spóngoin 		τοῖς σπόγγοις
toîs spóngois
Accusative τὸν σπόγγον
tòn spóngon 		τὼ σπόγγω
tṑ spóngō 		τοὺς σπόγγους
toùs spóngous
Vocative σπόγγε
spónge 		σπόγγω
spóngō 		σπόγγοι
spóngoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: إِسْفَنْج (ʔisfanj) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Aramaic: אספוגא
  • → Hebrew: ספוג (səfog)
  • → Old Armenian: սպունգ (spung)
  • ⇒ Greek: σφουγγάρι (sfoungári) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 586–587

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