- σποδός
- σποδόςGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `ash, ember, metal ashes, dust' (Ion. ι 375, trag. a. o.).Compounds: Compp. σποδο-ειδής `ash-coloured' (Hp., Arist. a.o.), ἔν-σποδος `id.' (Dsc.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 128 a. 130).Derivatives: 1. σποδ-ιά, Ion. -ιή f. `heap of ashes, ash' (ε 488, Hp., E. Cyc. 615 [lyr.], Pl. Com., LXX, AP a. o.; Scheller Oxytonierung 67) with -ιώδης `ash-coloured' (Erot.), -ιαῖος `id., gilvus' (Gloss.), -ιάς f. `wild plum, Prunus insititia (?)' (Thphr.). 2. -ιον n. `metal ash' (Poseidon., Dsc.) with -ιακός `made of σ.' (late medic.). 3. -(ε)ιος `ashen' (Semon. a. o.). 4. -ώδης `ashlike', of colour and taste (App., Gal.). 5. -ίτης ἄρτος `bread baked in ashes' (Hp., Diph.; Redard 91); also σποδεύς `id.' (s. on σπολάς). 6. Denominative verbs: a. σποδ-όομαι `to become ashes' (Hp., Lyc., AP), συνεσποδωμένον συγκεκομ-μένον H.; -ώσασθαι `to bestrew with ashes' (LXX); b. -ίζω `to roast in the ashes' (Pl., Ar.), intr. (also wit ὑπο-) `to become ashen' (Dsc.); c. σποδέω, also with κατα-, ἀπο-, δια-, `to crunch, to smash, to grind', also sensu obsc., of food `to consume, to swallow' (often Ar. a. o. com., A., E.), if prop. `to become dust'; cf. κατα-σποδέω `to stretch down in the dust' (A., Ar.); here also σποδ-όρχης m. `eunuch' (Eust.), s. E. Maass RhM 74, 432 ff.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)Etymology: Unexplained. Improbable hypothesis by Grošelj Živa Ant. 1, 129. Older lit. in Bq. -- Furnée 154 convincingly connects ἄσβολος `soot, dust of coals' and *σπολός in σπολεύς (but Frisk s.v. σπολάς takes this as wrong for *σποδεύς). The word then is Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,771
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.