σπάρος

Ancient Greek

Unknown. Perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to σμαρίς (smarís).^[1]^[2]

σπάρος • (spáros) m (genitive σπάρου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σπᾰ́ρος ho spáros	τὼ σπᾰ́ρω tṑ spárō	οἱ σπᾰ́ροι hoi spároi
Genitive	τοῦ σπᾰ́ρου toû spárou	τοῖν σπᾰ́ροιν toîn spároin	τῶν σπᾰ́ρων tôn spárōn
Dative	τῷ σπᾰ́ρῳ tôi spárōi	τοῖν σπᾰ́ροιν toîn spároin	τοῖς σπᾰ́ροις toîs spárois
Accusative	τὸν σπᾰ́ρον tòn spáron	τὼ σπᾰ́ρω tṑ spárō	τοὺς σπᾰ́ρους toùs spárous
Vocative	σπᾰ́ρε spáre	σπᾰ́ρω spárō	σπᾰ́ροι spároi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “σπάρος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1376–1377
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “σπάρος”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 83

Inherited from Ancient Greek σπάρος (spáros, “annular seabream”). The figurative sense is probably from this.^[1]

σπάρος • (spáros) m (plural σπάροι)

^ σπάρος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language