Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σφόγγος ‎(sphóngos) (Attic)

Noun

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

1. sponge
2. (anatomy) tonsil

Inflection

Descendants

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

References

• 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.