βῆσσα
See also: Βῆσσα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βᾶσσα (bâssa) – Doric
Etymology
Traditionally it has been connected with βαθύς (bathús, “deep”), as an e-grade root variant but Furnée doesn't dismiss a Pre-Greek origin and links the noun to the gloss βρῆσσαι (brêssai) found in Hesychius.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̂ːs.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe̝s.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβis.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvis.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βῆσσᾰ • (bêssa) f (genitive βήσσης); first declension
- wooded combe, glen
- kind of drinking cup used in Egypt
Inflection
First declension of ἡ βῆσσᾰ; τῆς βήσσης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βῆσσᾰ hē bêssa | τὼ βήσσᾱ tṑ bḗssā | αἱ βῆσσαι hai bêssai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βήσσης tês bḗssēs | τοῖν βήσσαιν toîn bḗssain | τῶν βησσῶν tôn bēssôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βήσσῃ têi bḗssēi | τοῖν βήσσαιν toîn bḗssain | ταῖς βήσσαις taîs bḗssais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βῆσσᾰν tḕn bêssan | τὼ βήσσᾱ tṑ bḗssā | τᾱ̀ς βήσσᾱς tā̀s bḗssās | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῆσσᾰ bêssa | βήσσᾱ bḗssā | βῆσσαι bêssai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Βῆσσᾰ (Bêssa)
- βησσήεις (bēssḗeis)
Further reading
- “βῆσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βῆσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βῆσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βῆσσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212