speîra

speîra σπεῖρα

• From Proto-Indo-European *sper-yeh₂-,
  • from *sper- (“to twist”),
  • and thus cognate with
    • σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling clothes”),
    • σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”), and σπεῖρον (speîron, “shroud”).
• Outside of Hellenic, cognate with
  • Old Armenian փարել (pʻarel, “to enclose, embrace”) (whence Armenian փարվել (pʻarvel, “id”)),
  • as well as perhaps
    • Albanian fier (“fern”) (which directly corresponds in formation with σπεῖρον (speîron)).

Noun

σπεῖρα • (speîra) f (genitive σπείρᾱς); first declension

1. anything twisted or wound
   1. (in the plural) coils or spires of snakes
   2. rope, cord
   3. knot or curl in wood
   4. (architecture) torus of a column