σπίζα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σπίζω (spízō, “to pipe, to chirp”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spí.za/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspi.za/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.za/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.za/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspi.za/
Noun
σπίζα • (spíza) f (genitive σπίζης); first declension
- chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
- Synonym: σπῐ́νος (spínos)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ σπῐ́ζᾰ; τῆς σπῐ́ζης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σπῐ́ζᾰ hē spíza | τὼ σπῐ́ζᾱ tṑ spízā | αἱ σπῐ́ζαι hai spízai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σπῐ́ζης tês spízēs | τοῖν σπῐ́ζαιν toîn spízain | τῶν σπῐζῶν tôn spizôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σπῐ́ζῃ têi spízēi | τοῖν σπῐ́ζαιν toîn spízain | ταῖς σπῐ́ζαις taîs spízais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σπῐ́ζᾰν tḕn spízan | τὼ σπῐ́ζᾱ tṑ spízā | τᾱ̀ς σπῐ́ζᾱς tā̀s spízās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπῐ́ζᾰ spíza | σπῐ́ζᾱ spízā | σπῐ́ζαι spízai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀρόσπιζος (oróspizos)
- σπιζίας (spizías)
- σπιζίον (spizíon)
- σπιζίτης (spizítēs)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Spiza
References
- “σπίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπίζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette