spongia
See also: Spongia
Latin
Alternative forms
- spongea
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of fungus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspon.ɡi.a/, [ˈs̠pɔŋɡiä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspon.d͡ʒi.a/, [ˈspɔn̠ʲd͡ʒiä]
Noun
spongia f (genitive spongiae); first declension
- A sponge.
- (by extension) pumice, or other things resembling a sponge.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | spongia | spongiae |
| Genitive | spongiae | spongiārum |
| Dative | spongiae | spongiīs |
| Accusative | spongiam | spongiās |
| Ablative | spongiā | spongiīs |
| Vocative | spongia | spongiae |
Derived terms
- spongiō
- spongiōsus
- spongius
- xylospongium
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *sponga
- Old French: espoinge, espoigne
- Middle French: esponge
- French: éponge
- Middle French: esponge
- Old French: espoinge, espoigne
- → Albanian: sfungjer
- Aromanian: spingiu
- Asturian: esponxa
- Catalan: esponja
- Friulian: sponze, sponge
- Galician: espulla (inherited), esponxa
- → Hungarian: spongya (archaic)
- Italian: spugna
- → Old English: spunge
- → English: sponge (see there for further descendants)
- Portuguese: esponja, espongina
- Romanian: spongie, spânz
- Sardinian: spòngia, ispòngia, ispunzòla, ispanzola
- → Serbo-Croatian: spužva
- Sicilian: sfincia, sponza
- Spanish: esponja, espundia
- Venetian: sponxa, sponga
References
- “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 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