Ancient Greek

Noun

σπόρος • ‎(spóros) m ‎(genitive σπόρου); second declension

1. A sowing
2. The time for sowing
3. seed
4. produce, harvest, crop
5. offspring
6. semen

Inflection

References

• σπόρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σπόρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4703”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • seed-time idem, page 749.
  • sowing idem, page 797.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspo̞ro̞s]

Noun

σπόρος • ‎(spóros) m ‎(plural σπόροι)

1. (botany) seed (of a plant)
2. (biology) sperm, seed
3. (figuratively) seed (of an idea)

Declension