σπάργανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From *σπάργω (*spárgō, “to swaddle”), which is from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twist”) with a g-extension (perhaps via contamination with a verb of similar meaning, like εἴργω (eírgō, “to enclose”)). Related to σπεῖρον (speîron, “burial shroud”) and σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”); see the latter for more cognates.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spár.ɡa.ni.on/ → /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/ → /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spár.ɡa.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɡa.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈspar.ɣa.ni.on/

Noun

σπᾰ́ργᾰνον • (spárganon) n (genitive σπᾰργᾰ́νου); second declension

1. band for swathing infants
2. (in the plural) swaddling clothes
3. objects left with an exposed child, the marks by which a person's true birth and family are identified

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σπᾰ́ργᾰνον; τοῦ σπᾰργᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σπᾰ́ργᾰνον tò spárganon	τὼ σπᾰργᾰ́νω tṑ spargánō	τᾰ̀ σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ tà spárgana
Genitive	τοῦ σπᾰργᾰ́νου toû spargánou	τοῖν σπᾰργᾰ́νοιν toîn spargánoin	τῶν σπᾰργᾰ́νων tôn spargánōn
Dative	τῷ σπᾰργᾰ́νῳ tôi spargánōi	τοῖν σπᾰργᾰ́νοιν toîn spargánoin	τοῖς σπᾰργᾰ́νοις toîs spargánois
Accusative	τὸ σπᾰ́ργᾰνον tò spárganon	τὼ σπᾰργᾰ́νω tṑ spargánō	τᾰ̀ σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ tà spárgana
Vocative	σπᾰ́ργᾰνον spárganon	σπᾰργᾰ́νω spargánō	σπᾰ́ργᾰνᾰ spárgana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σπαργανίζω (sparganízō)
• σπαργάνιον (spargánion)
• σπαργανιώτης (sparganiṓtēs)
• σπαργανόω (sparganóō)
• σπαργάνωμα (spargánōma)
• σπαργάνωσις (spargánōsis)
• σπαργανωτέος (sparganōtéos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: sparganum

Further reading

• “σπάργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σπάργανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σπάργανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette