σποργίλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like ὀρχίλος (orkhílos, “wren”) and τροχίλος (trokhílos, “Egyptian plover; wren”). This word has a counterpart in Old Prussian spurglis (“sparrow”), which may point to a European substrate word or a Wanderwort.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spor.ɡí.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sporˈɡi.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sporˈʝi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sporˈʝi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sporˈʝi.los/
Noun
σποργῐ́λος • (sporgílos) m (genitive σποργῐ́λου); second declension
- bird mentioned by Aristophanes, probably the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Synonym: στρουθός (strouthós)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σποργῐ́λος; τοῦ σποργῐ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σποργῐ́λος ho sporgílos | τὼ σποργῐ́λω tṑ sporgílō | οἱ σποργῐ́λοι hoi sporgíloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σποργῐ́λου toû sporgílou | τοῖν σποργῐ́λοιν toîn sporgíloin | τῶν σποργῐ́λων tôn sporgílōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σποργῐ́λῳ tôi sporgílōi | τοῖν σποργῐ́λοιν toîn sporgíloin | τοῖς σποργῐ́λοις toîs sporgílois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σποργῐ́λον tòn sporgílon | τὼ σποργῐ́λω tṑ sporgílō | τοὺς σποργῐ́λους toùs sporgílous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σποργῐ́λε sporgíle | σποργῐ́λω sporgílō | σποργῐ́λοι sporgíloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σποργίλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1386