σποργίλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ὀρχίλος (orkhílos, “wren”) and τροχίλος (trokhílos, “Egyptian plover; wren”). This word has a counterpart in Old Prussian spurglis (“sparrow”), which may point to a European substrate word or a Wanderwort.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spor.ɡí.los/ → /sporˈʝi.los/ → /sporˈʝi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spor.ɡí.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sporˈɡi.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sporˈʝi.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sporˈʝi.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sporˈʝi.los/

Noun

σποργῐ́λος • (sporgílos) m (genitive σποργῐ́λου); second declension

1. bird mentioned by Aristophanes, probably the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

   Synonym: στρουθός (strouthós)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σποργῐ́λος; τοῦ σποργῐ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σποργῐ́λος ho sporgílos	τὼ σποργῐ́λω tṑ sporgílō	οἱ σποργῐ́λοι hoi sporgíloi
Genitive	τοῦ σποργῐ́λου toû sporgílou	τοῖν σποργῐ́λοιν toîn sporgíloin	τῶν σποργῐ́λων tôn sporgílōn
Dative	τῷ σποργῐ́λῳ tôi sporgílōi	τοῖν σποργῐ́λοιν toîn sporgíloin	τοῖς σποργῐ́λοις toîs sporgílois
Accusative	τὸν σποργῐ́λον tòn sporgílon	τὼ σποργῐ́λω tṑ sporgílō	τοὺς σποργῐ́λους toùs sporgílous
Vocative	σποργῐ́λε sporgíle	σποργῐ́λω sporgílō	σποργῐ́λοι sporgíloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σποργίλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1386