sphaera
Latin
Alternative forms
- sphēra (Late Latin)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspʰae̯.ra/, [ˈs̠pʰäe̯rä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsfe.ra/, [ˈsfɛːrä]
Noun
sphaera f (genitive sphaerae); first declension
- ball, globe, sphere
- a globe of the heavens
- a ball for playing
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sphaera | sphaerae |
| Genitive | sphaerae | sphaerārum |
| Dative | sphaerae | sphaerīs |
| Accusative | sphaeram | sphaerās |
| Ablative | sphaerā | sphaerīs |
| Vocative | sphaera | sphaerae |
Synonyms
- (globe, sphere): globus
Derived terms
- sphaerālis
- sphaerula
Related terms
- sphaericus
- sphaerion
- sphaerista
- sphaeristērium
- sphaeroīdēs
- sphaeromachia
Descendants
- → Catalan: esfera
- → French: sphère
- → Galician: esfera
- → Italian: sfera
- → Romanian: sferă
- → Spanish: esfera
- → English: sphere, sphaera recta
- → German: Sphäre
- → Irish: spéir, sféar
- → Polish: sfera
- → Portuguese: esfera
- Friulian: spere
- Italian: spera
- Old Portuguese: espera
- Venetian: spiera
See also
- orbis
References
- “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sphaera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sphaera 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)
- sphaera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “sphaera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sphaera”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 613