- σπόγγος
- σπόγγοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `sponge (for wiping off)', metaph. of spongelike objects, e.g. `gland'(Il.).Other forms: also σφόγγος (certain in hell. a. late inscr.; s. Hiersche Ten. aspiratae 207 f.).Compounds: Rarely as 1. member, e.g. σπογγο-θήρας m. `sponge hunter, gatherer' (Plu.).Derivatives: 1. Dimin. σπογγ-ίον n. (Ar., Dsc.), -άριον n. (M. Ant. a. o.). 2. -ιά f. = σπόγγος (Ar., Aeschin., Arist., Aret. a. o.; on the acc. Scheller Oxytonierung 73). 3. -ίας m. `id.' (Ar. Fr. 856). 4. -εύς m. (-ιεύς) `sponge gatherer' (Arist., Thphr.; Bosshardt 61). 5. -ώδης `spongy, porous' (Hp., Arist., Dsc.). 6. -ῖτις `id.' (Plin., Aët.; Redard 61 a. 77). 7. -ίζω, also w. ἀπο-, ἐκ- a.o., `to wipe off' (Hp., Att. etc.); and -ιστική (τέχνη) `the art of wiping' (Pl.; Chantraine Etudes 134).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)Etymology: As old Wanderwort identical with Arm. sownk, sowng `mushroom, cork-tree', Lat. fungus `mushroom, sea-, tree-mushroom, -like ulcer'. Extensive treatment w. lit. in Hiersche Ten. aspiratae 229 ff. For older discussion s. W.-Hofmann s. fungus. -- Lat. LW [loanword] spongia (from σπογγιά) with spongiōsus u. a.Page in Frisk: 2,770
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.