spons
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]spons f (plural sponsen or sponzen, diminutive sponsje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: spons
- Negerhollands: spons, sponsje
- → Caribbean Javanese: sepons
- → Papiamentu: spòns, spons
- → Sranan Tongo: sponsu
See also
[edit]Indonesian
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spons (plural spons-spons)
Latin
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Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin. De Vaan is skeptical of connections to Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to spin, weave”) due to semantic vagueness and leaves the origin open, while older theories have connected the word with spondeō (“to promise, guarantee”)[1] (thus a pledging of oneself to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord); the latter theory appears more semantically reasonable.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspõːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɔns]
Noun
[edit]spōns f sg (genitive spontis); third declension
- free will, free accord, free impulse, voluntary or spontaneous action
- 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.13:
- Quid est, Catilīna? Num dubitās — id mē imperante — facere quod iam, tuā sponte, faciēbās?
- What is it, Catiline? Surely you do not hesitate — with me commanding it — to do that which already, by your [own] accord, you were doing?
- Quid est, Catilīna? Num dubitās — id mē imperante — facere quod iam, tuā sponte, faciēbās?
Usage notes
[edit]Only attested in the ablative and genitive, almost always in combination with a personal pronoun (meā sponte, suae spontis).
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | spōns |
| genitive | spontis |
| dative | spontī |
| accusative | spontem |
| ablative | sponte |
| vocative | spōns |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “*spōns, spontis”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 644
Further reading
[edit]- “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “spons”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
- (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
- spons in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]spons
- imperative of sponse
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔns
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