Ido

Noun

spondeo (plural spondei)

1. spondee

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spon.ˈdɛ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛo
• Hyphenation: spon‧dè‧o

Noun

spondeo m ‎(plural spondei)

1. spondee

Anagrams

• sopendo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *spondeō, from Proto-Indo-European *spondéyeti, causative verb from *spend- ‎(“to perform a rite, make an offering”). Cognates include Ancient Greek σπένδω ‎(spéndō, “libate”), σπονδή ‎(spondḗ, “libation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.de.oː/

Verb

spondeō ‎(present infinitive spondēre, perfect active spopondī, supine spōnsum); second conjugation

1. I promise, bind or pledge myself, contract, vow.
2. I guarantee
3. I promise for another; I become security for a person, enter bail.
4. I promise or engage in marriage, betroth.

Inflection

• This verb has only limited passive conjugation; only third-person passive forms are attested in surviving sources. The third principal part may be spopondī or spepondī.

Derived terms

Related terms

• spōnsāle
• spōnsālia
• spōnsiuncula

References

• spondeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spondeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spondeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• spondeo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press