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|etymtx=-εως<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[rarity]], [[scarcity]] (IA.).<br />Other forms: Ion. dat. <b class="b3">-ι</b>.<br />Derivatives: 1. [[σπάνιος]] [[rare]], [[scarce]] (IA.); in compp. for it <b class="b3">σπανο-</b>, e.g. <b class="b3">σπανο-σιτ-ία</b> f. [[lack of grain]], [[provision]] (X., Arist., inscr. a. o.; <b class="b3">σπανι-</b> σπάνις Delos IIIa); <b class="b3">σπανο-πώγων</b>, <b class="b3">-ωνος</b> [[having a scarce growth of beard]] (Ion Hist., pap.), shortened from this [[σπανός]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, also [[eunuch]] (Ptol. a. o., Byz.; Fraenkel Μνήμ. [[χάριν]] 1, 100, E. Maass RhM 74, 432); <b class="b3">σπανι-άκις</b> [[infrequent]] (Luc. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ότης</b> f. = [[σπάνις]] (Isoc., Ph.), also [[σπανία]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (E. Rh. 245 [lyr.]; from [[σπάνιος]] or enlarged from [[σπάνις]]; Scheller Oxytonierung 38). 2. Verb [[σπανίζω]], <b class="b3">-ομαι</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, [[to lack in smth.]], [[to lack]], [[to be sparse, to be missing]] (Pi., IA.) with <b class="b3">σπαν-ιστός</b> [[meagre]], [[sparse]] (S. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ιστικός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Vett. Val.); [[σπανίζω]] also factitive [[to exhaust]], [[to spend]], [[to dispense]] (LXX, pap., Ph. Byz.); backformed from the verb <b class="b3">σπανόν τίμιον</b>, <b class="b3">πολλοῦ ἄξιόν ἐστιν</b> [[H]].<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)<br />Etymology: Etymology doubted. Rather with <b class="b3">νι-</b>suffix to [[σπάω]] (Persson Beitr. 1, 397 n. 1 as supposition with Curtius 272) than with zero grade to [[πένομαι]] (s. Curtius a. O.; anl. <b class="b3">σπ-</b> gives problems). Diff. Solmsen Wortforsch. 157 (to Lat. [[pēnūria]]). -- Furnée 378, however, may be right in connecting <b class="b3">ἠπανᾳ -νεῖ ἀπορεῖ</b>, [[σπανίζει]], [[ἀμηχανεῖ]] H, assuming a prothetic <b class="b3">σ-</b> and a prothetic <b class="b3">α-</b> lengthened to <b class="b3">ἠ-</b>. If so, the word is Pre-Greek.