σπίνος

See also: σπινός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σπῐ́γγος (spíngos), σπῐ́να (spína), σπῐνῐ́ον (spiníon), σπῐ́ννος (spínnos)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- (“small bird, sparrow”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *finkiz (“finch”), Welsh pinc (“finch”) and Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “shrike”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spí.nos/ → /ˈspi.nos/ → /ˈspi.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spí.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nos/

Noun

σπῐ́νος • (spínos) m (genitive σπῐ́νου); second declension

1. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

   Synonym: σπῐ́ζᾰ (spíza)

2. kind of stone, which blazes when water touches it

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σπῐ́νος; τοῦ σπῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σπίνος (spínos)

Further reading

• “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

σπίνος
(Fringilla coelebs subsp. coelebs)

σπίνος
(Fringilla coelebs subsp. coelebs)

σπίνος
(Fringilla coelebs subsp. coelebs)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπίνος, σπίγγος (spínos, spíngos).

Noun

σπίνος • (spínos) m (plural σπίνοι)

1. finch

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	σπίνος (spínos)	σπίνοι (spínoi)
genitive	σπίνου (spínou)	σπίνων (spínon)
accusative	σπίνο (spíno)	σπίνους (spínous)
vocative	σπίνε (spíne)	σπίνοι (spínoi)

Descendants

• → Gagauz: ispinoz
• → Ottoman Turkish: اسپنوز (ispinoz)
  • Turkish: ispinoz

Further reading

• σπίνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el