σπίνος
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See also: σπινός
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- (“small bird, sparrow”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *finkiz (“finch”), Welsh pinc (“finch”) and Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “shrike”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spí.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspi.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈspi.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈspi.nos/
Noun
[edit]σπῐ́νος • (spínos) m (genitive σπῐ́νου); second declension
- chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
- Synonym: σπῐ́ζᾰ (spíza)
- kind of stone, which blazes when water touches it
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σπῐ́νος ho spínos |
τὼ σπῐ́νω tṑ spínō |
οἱ σπῐ́νοι hoi spínoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σπῐ́νου toû spínou |
τοῖν σπῐ́νοιν toîn spínoin |
τῶν σπῐ́νων tôn spínōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σπῐ́νῳ tôi spínōi |
τοῖν σπῐ́νοιν toîn spínoin |
τοῖς σπῐ́νοις toîs spínois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σπῐ́νον tòn spínon |
τὼ σπῐ́νω tṑ spínō |
τοὺς σπῐ́νους toùs spínous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπῐ́νε spíne |
σπῐ́νω spínō |
σπῐ́νοι spínoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: σπίνος (spínos)
Further reading
[edit]- “σπίνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπίνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek σπίνος, σπίγγος (spínos, spíngos).
Noun
[edit]σπίνος • (spínos) m (plural σπίνοι)
Declension
[edit]Declension of σπίνος
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- σπίνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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- el:True finches