sponda

From Latin sponda. Compare Catalan espona (“bedside”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: spón‧da

sponda f (plural sponde)

1. bank, riparian (of a river)
2. shore
   • 1981, Franco Battiato (lyrics and music), “Summer On A Solitary Beach”, in La voce del padrone:

     Mare mare mare voglio annegare / portami lontano a naufragare / via via via da queste sponde / portami lontano sulle onde

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. side
4. bedstead

• sponda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• spando

From Proto-Italic *sponda (“frame”), from Proto-Indo-European *spond-h₂-. Related to Welsh ffon.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈs̠pɔn̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.da/, [ˈspɔn̪d̪ä]

sponda f (genitive spondae); first declension

1. bedstead
2. bed, couch, sofa

First-declension noun.

• Aragonese: espuenna, espuenda; espuena; espona
• Catalan: espona
• Italian: sponda

• “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sponda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sponda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sponda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sponda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin