σπεῖρον

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twist”) and so cognate with σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”) and σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).

σπεῖρον • (speîron) n (genitive σπεῖρου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ σπεῖρον; τοῦ σπείρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σπεῖρον tò speîron	τὼ σπείρω tṑ speírō	τᾰ̀ σπεῖρᾰ tà speîra
Genitive	τοῦ σπείρου toû speírou	τοῖν σπείροιν toîn speíroin	τῶν σπείρων tôn speírōn
Dative	τῷ σπείρῳ tôi speírōi	τοῖν σπείροιν toîn speíroin	τοῖς σπείροις toîs speírois
Accusative	τὸ σπεῖρον tò speîron	τὼ σπείρω tṑ speírō	τᾰ̀ σπεῖρᾰ tà speîra
Vocative	σπεῖρον speîron	σπείρω speírō	σπεῖρᾰ speîra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

σπεῖρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σπεῖρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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