σποράδην

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σπορᾱ́ (sporā́), verbal noun from o-grade of the root of σπείρω (speírō, “to sow, scatter”), +‎ -δην (-dēn, deverbal adverb suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spo.rá.dɛːn/ → /spoˈra.ðin/ → /spoˈra.ðin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spo.rá.dɛːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /spoˈra.de̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /spoˈra.ðin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /spoˈra.ðin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /spoˈra.ðin/

Adverb

σποράδην • (sporádēn)

1. in a scattered manner, here and there

References

• “σποράδην”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • here idem, page 397.
  • intermittently idem, page 451.
  • scantily idem, page 737.
  • scattered idem, page 738.
  • sparsely idem, page 798.
  • sporadically idem, page 804.
  • thinly idem, page 867.