βύσσος
See also: βυσσός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βῠ́σσᾰ (bússa)
Etymology
From a Semitic source cognate to Hebrew בּוּץ (būṣ, “byssus”) and Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā, “byssus”), from Proto-Semitic *būṣ- (“fibrous grass, rush etc.”). Compare also Old Armenian բեհեզ (behez, “byssus”).
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
- flax (Linum usitatissimum)
- linen
- Levant cotton (Gossypium herbaceum)
- silk
Declension
Second declension of ἡ βῠ́σσος; τῆς βῠ́σσου (Attic)
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
- βῠσσῐ́νη (bussínē)
- βῠ́σσῐνος (bússinos)
- βῠ́σσωμᾰ (bússōma)
Descendants
- → Ge'ez: ቢሶስ (bisos), ብሶስ (bəsos), ቡሱስ (busus), በሱስ (bäsus), ብሲስ (bəsis), ብሱስ (bəsus), ቢሶን (bison, “fine green linen”)
- ⇒ Ge'ez: ቢስንሶ (bisənso, “green”)
- → Tigrinya: ቢሶ (biso, “green leather, velvet”)
- → Gothic: 𐌱𐍅𐍃𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌽 (bwssaun)
- → Latin: byssus, bissus
- Translingual: 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 (2006–2023)
- 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