σπόγγος

Ancient Greek

Together with Latin fungus (“mushroom, fungus”) and Old Armenian սունկն (sunkn, “tree-mushroom”) a Mediterranean–Pontic Pre-Greek substrate loanword.[1]

σπόγγος • (spóngos) m (genitive σπόγγου); second declension

Second declension of ὁ σπόγγος; τοῦ σπόγγου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σπόγγος ho spóngos	τὼ σπόγγω tṑ spóngō	οἱ σπόγγοι hoi spóngoi
Genitive	τοῦ σπόγγου toû spóngou	τοῖν σπόγγοιν toîn spóngoin	τῶν σπόγγων tôn spóngōn
Dative	τῷ σπόγγῳ tôi spóngōi	τοῖν σπόγγοιν toîn spóngoin	τοῖς σπόγγοις toîs spóngois
Accusative	τὸν σπόγγον tòn spóngon	τὼ σπόγγω tṑ spóngō	τοὺς σπόγγους toùs spóngous
Vocative	σπόγγε spónge	σπόγγω spóngō	σπόγγοι spóngoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Arabic: إسفنج‎ (ʾisfanj)
- Persian: اسفنج‎ (esfanj)
  - Urdu: اسفنج‎ (isfanj)
Classical Syriac: ܐܣܦܘܓܐ‎ (ʾespōḡā)
Greek: σφουγγάρι (sfoungári)
- Albanian: sfungjeri
- Azerbaijani: süngər
- Turkish: sünger
  - Serbo-Croatian: сунђер / sunđer
Latin: spongia
Old Armenian: սպունգ (spung)
- Armenian: սպունգ (spung)

Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 586–587

σπόγγος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σπόγγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
σπόγγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4699 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- mop idem, page 540.
- sponge idem, page 804.

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