βύσσος
See also: βυσσός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Semitic source common to Hebrew בּוּץ (búts) and Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā). Compare also Old Armenian բեհեզ (behez).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /býs.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbys.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβys.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvys.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sos/
Noun
βύσσος • (bússos) f (genitive βύσσου); second declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βῠ́σσος hē bússos |
τὼ βῠ́σσω tṑ bússō |
αἱ βῠ́σσοι hai bússoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βῠ́σσου tês bússou |
τοῖν βῠ́σσοιν toîn bússoin |
τῶν βῠ́σσων tôn bússōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βῠ́σσῳ têi bússōi |
τοῖν βῠ́σσοιν toîn bússoin |
ταῖς βῠ́σσοις taîs bússois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βῠ́σσον tḕn bússon |
τὼ βῠ́σσω tṑ bússō |
τᾱ̀ς βῠ́σσους tā̀s bússous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῠ́σσε bússe |
βῠ́σσω bússō |
βῠ́σσοι bússoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βύσσινος (bússinos)
- βύσσωμα (bússōma)
Descendants
- Latin: byssus
Further reading
- βύσσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βύσσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βύσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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