σπόρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *spor-, an o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *sper-. Cognate to σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”), σπέρμα (spérma, “semen, sperm”), and Albanian farë.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spó.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspo.ros/
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (genitive σπόρου); second declension
- A sowing
- The time for sowing
- seed
- produce, harvest, crop
- offspring
- semen
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σπόρος; τοῦ σπόρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σπόρος ho spóros | τὼ σπόρω tṑ spórō | οἱ σπόροι hoi spóroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπόρου toû spórou | τοῖν σπόροιν toîn spóroin | τῶν σπόρων tôn spórōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπόρῳ tôi spórōi | τοῖν σπόροιν toîn spóroin | τοῖς σπόροις toîs spórois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σπόρον tòn spóron | τὼ σπόρω tṑ spórō | τοὺς σπόρους toùs spórous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπόρε spóre | σπόρω spórō | σπόροι spóroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: σπόρος (spóros)
Further reading
- “σπόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4703 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- seed-time idem, page 749.
- sowing idem, page 797.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈspo̞ro̞s]
Noun
σπόρος • (spóros) m (plural σπόροι)
- (botany) seed (of a plant)
- (biology) sperm, seed
- (figuratively) seed (of an idea)
Declension
declension of σπόρος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | σπόρος • | σπόροι • |
genitive | σπόρου • | σπόρων • |
accusative | σπόρο • | σπόρους • |
vocative | σπόρε • | σπόροι • |