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From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word.

• IPA^(key): /spɔns/

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• Hyphenation: spons
• Rhymes: -ɔns

spons f (plural sponsen or sponzen, diminutive sponsje n)

1. sponge

• badspons
• sponsbad
• sponsdier
• sponzen

• Afrikaans: spons
• Negerhollands: spons, sponsje
• → Caribbean Javanese: sepons
• → Papiamentu: spòns, spons
• → Sranan Tongo: sponsu

• fungus

From Dutch spons.

spons (plural spons-spons)

1. sponge (piece of porous material used for washing)
2. sponge (animal)

Of uncertain origin. De Vaan is skeptical of connections to Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to spin, weave”) due to semantic vagueness and leaves the origin open, while older theories have connected the word with spondeō (“to promise, guarantee”)^[1] (thus a pledging of one's self to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord); the latter theory appears more semantically reasonable.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspõːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspɔns]

spōns f sg (genitive spontis); third declension

1. free will, free accord, free impulse, voluntary or spontaneous action

   Synonyms: intentiō, cōgitātiō, voluntās, propositum, cōnsilium, mēns, animus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.340–341:

     “Mē sī fāta meīs paterentur dūcere vītam
     auspiciīs et sponte meā compōnere cūrās, [...].”

     “If the Fates had let me live a life with my choices, and to order cares by my [own] free will, [...]”

Only attested in the ablative and genitive, almost always in combination with a personal pronoun (meā sponte, suae spontis).

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• spontālis
• spontāneus
• sponte

• “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
    
• spons in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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1. imperative of sponse