Sportel

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sportula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpɔʁtl̩/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Sportel f (genitive Sportel, plural Sporteln)

1. (historical, in some cases recent in Switzerland) a fee accepted by public officers (including judges, university professors, pastors etc.) to act in the capacity of their office

   Near-synonyms: Amtgeld, Gebühr, Gefälle, Abgabe

   Hyponyms: (for judicial acts) Gerichtgeld, Klagpfennig, Klagschatz, Klagschilling

Declension

Declension of Sportel [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Sportel	die	Sporteln
genitive	einer	der	Sportel	der	Sporteln
dative	einer	der	Sportel	den	Sporteln
accusative	eine	die	Sportel	die	Sporteln

Derived terms

• sporteln

Descendants

• → Danish: sportel
  • → Norwegian: sportel
• → Swedish: sportel
  • → Finnish: sportteli

Further reading

• Sportel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Sportel” in Duden online
• “Sportel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Sportleⁿ”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache^[1] (in German), volume 10, 1939, column 495