sponda

Italian

FWOTD – 11 September 2022

Etymology

From Latin sponda. Compare Catalan espona (“bedside”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: spón‧da

Noun

sponda f (plural sponde)

1. bank, riparian (of a river)
2. shore
   • 1981, Franco Battiato (lyrics and music), “Summer On A Solitary Beach”, in La voce del padrone:

     Mare mare mare voglio annegare / portami lontano a naufragare / via via via da queste sponde / portami lontano sulle onde

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. side
4. bedstead

Further reading

• sponda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• spando

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sponda (“frame”), from Proto-Indo-European *spond-h₂-. Related to Welsh ffon.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈs̠pɔn̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈspɔn̪d̪ä]

Noun

sponda f (genitive spondae); first declension

1. bedstead
2. bed, couch, sofa

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sponda	spondae
Genitive	spondae	spondārum
Dative	spondae	spondīs
Accusative	spondam	spondās
Ablative	spondā	spondīs
Vocative	sponda	spondae

Descendants

• Aragonese: espuenna, espuenda (other dialects), espuena, espona
• Catalan: espona
• Italian: sponda

References

• “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sponda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sponda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sponda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin