σποδιάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σπονδῐᾰ́ς (spondiás)

Etymology

From σποδός (spodós, “wood-ashes, embers”) +‎ -ιάς (-iás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spo.di.ás/ → /spo.ðiˈas/ → /spo.ðiˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spo.di.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /spo.diˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /spo.ðiˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /spo.ðiˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /spo.ðiˈas/

Noun

σποδῐᾰ́ς • (spodiás) f (genitive σποδῐᾰ́δος); third declension

1. bullace (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σποδῐᾰ́ς; τῆς σποδῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σποδῐᾰ́ς hē spodiás	τὼ σποδῐᾰ́δε tṑ spodiáde	αἱ σποδῐᾰ́δες hai spodiádes
Genitive	τῆς σποδῐᾰ́δος tês spodiádos	τοῖν σποδῐᾰ́δοιν toîn spodiádoin	τῶν σποδῐᾰ́δων tôn spodiádōn
Dative	τῇ σποδῐᾰ́δῐ têi spodiádi	τοῖν σποδῐᾰ́δοιν toîn spodiádoin	ταῖς σποδῐᾰ́σῐ / σποδῐᾰ́σῐν taîs spodiási(n)
Accusative	τὴν σποδῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn spodiáda	τὼ σποδῐᾰ́δε tṑ spodiáde	τᾱ̀ς σποδῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s spodiádas
Vocative	σποδῐᾰ́ς spodiás	σποδῐᾰ́δε spodiáde	σποδῐᾰ́δες spodiádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Spondias

Further reading

• “σποδιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σποδιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette