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== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /spɔns/ Hyphenation: spons Rhymes: -ɔns === Noun === spons f (plural sponsen or sponzen, diminutive sponsje n) sponge ==== Derived terms ==== badspons sponsbad sponsdier sponzen ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: spons Negerhollands: spons, sponsje → Caribbean Javanese: sepons → Papiamentu: spòns, spons → Sranan Tongo: sponsu ==== See also ==== fungus == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Dutch spons. === Noun === spons (plural spons-spons) sponge (piece of porous material used for washing) sponge (animal) == Latin == === Etymology === Of uncertain origin. De Vaan is skeptical of connections to Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to spin, weave”) due to semantic vagueness and leaves the origin open, while older theories have connected the word with spondeō (“to promise, guarantee”) (thus a pledging of one's self to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord); the latter theory appears more semantically reasonable. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspõːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɔns] === Noun === spōns f sg (genitive spontis); third declension free will, free accord, free impulse, voluntary or spontaneous action Synonyms: intentiō, cōgitātiō, voluntās, propositum, cōnsilium, mēns, animus ==== Usage notes ==== Only attested in the ablative and genitive, almost always in combination with a personal pronoun (meā sponte, suae spontis). ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== spontālis spontāneus sponte === References === === Further reading === “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “spons”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co. spons in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === spons imperative of sponse