spongia

• spongea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of fungus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.ɡi.a/, [ˈs̠pɔŋɡiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.d͡ʒi.a/, [ˈspɔn̠ʲd͡ʒiä]

spongia f (genitive spongiae); first declension

1. A sponge.
2. (by extension) pumice, or other things resembling a sponge.

First-declension noun.

• spongiō
• spongiōsus
• spongius
• xylospongium

• “spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spongia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spongia 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)
• spongia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “spongia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “spongia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin