σπάθη

Ancient Greek

Most likely from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to draw”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; put”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *spadô, Hittite [script needed] (išpatar, “spear”).

σπᾰ́θη • (spáthē) f (genitive σπᾰ́θης); first declension

First declension of ἡ σπᾰ́θη; τῆς σπᾰ́θης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σπᾰ́θη hē spáthē	τὼ σπᾰ́θᾱ tṑ spáthā	αἱ σπᾰ́θαι hai spáthai
Genitive	τῆς σπᾰ́θης tês spáthēs	τοῖν σπᾰ́θαιν toîn spáthain	τῶν σπᾰθῶν tôn spathôn
Dative	τῇ σπᾰ́θῃ têi spáthēi	τοῖν σπᾰ́θαιν toîn spáthain	ταῖς σπᾰ́θαις taîs spáthais
Accusative	τὴν σπᾰ́θην tḕn spáthēn	τὼ σπᾰ́θᾱ tṑ spáthā	τᾱ̀ς σπᾰ́θᾱς tā̀s spáthās
Vocative	σπᾰ́θη spáthē	σπᾰ́θᾱ spáthā	σπᾰ́θαι spáthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

σπάθη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σπάθη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blade idem, page 81.
- comb idem, page 144.
- shuttle idem, page 772.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σπάθη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1374

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