spongia

See also: Spongia

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγῐᾱ́ (spongĭā́), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of fungus.

spongia f (genitive spongiae); first declension

First-declension noun.

Vulgar Latin: *sponga
- Old French: espoinge, espoigne
  - Middle French: esponge
    - French: éponge
    - Norman: êponge
  - → Middle Dutch: sponge
    - Dutch: spons
      - Afrikaans: spons
      - Negerhollands: spons, sponsje
      - → Caribbean Javanese: sepons
      - → Papiamentu: spòns, spons
      - → Sranan Tongo: sponsu
→ Albanian: sfungjer
Aromanian: spingiu
Asturian: esponxa
Catalan: esponja
Friulian: sponze, sponge
→ Hungarian: spongya (archaic)
Italian: spugna
→ Old English: spunge
- → English: sponge (see there for further descendants)
Old Galician-Portuguese: espunlha
- Galician: espulla
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: esponsa, sponssa, sponia, sponja (semi-learned)
- Fala: esponja
- Galician: esponxa
- Portuguese: esponja (see there for further descendants)
Romanian: spânz, → spongie
Sardinian: spòngia, ispòngia, ispunzòla, ispanzola
→ Serbo-Croatian: spužva
Sicilian: sfincia, sponza
Spanish: esponja
Venetan: sponxa, sponga
Translingual: Spongia
→⇒ Translingual: Sclerospongiae

Uncertain derivations:

“spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"spongia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
spongia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“spongia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“spongia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin