Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σπόνδυλος ‎(spóndulos) (Attic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sɸóndylos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /spóndylos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /spó̃dilos/

Noun

σφόνδυλος • ‎(sphóndulos) m ‎(genitive σφονδύλου); second declension

1. vertebra (especially the cervical vertebrae)
2. joint (especially of a scorpion's tail)
3. tambour
4. whorl (spindle weight)
5. whorl (botany)
6. voting pebble

Inflection

References

• σφόνδυλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σφόνδυλος» 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.
  • backbone idem, page 58.
  • vertebra idem, page 949.
  • whorl idem, page 978.

Greek

Noun

σφόνδυλος • ‎(sfóndylos) m ‎(plural σφόνδυλοι)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of σπόνδυλος ‎(spóndylos)

Declension