δισσός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- δῐττός (dittós) – Attic
- δῐξός (dixós) – Ionic
Etymology
From δίς (dís, “twice”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dis.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /disˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðisˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðisˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈsos/
Adjective
δῐσσός • (dissós) m (feminine δῐσσή, neuter δῐσσόν); first/second declension
- twofold, double
- Herodotus, Histories 2.44
- Herodotus, Histories 7.70
- Plato, Theaetetus 198D
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.4.5
- (in the plural) two
- Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.67
- Herodotus, Histories 5.40
- Herodotus, Histories 5.52
- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 957
- Sophocles, Ajax 57
- (figuratively) divided, disagreeing in mind
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon 122
- doubtful, ambiguous
- Sophocles, Electra 645
- Aristotle, Politics 2.3.3
Inflection
First and second declension of δῐσσός; δῐσσή; δῐσσόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | δῐσσός dissós | δῐσσή dissḗ | δῐσσόν dissón | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσᾱ́ dissā́ | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσοί dissoí | δῐσσαί dissaí | δῐσσᾰ́ dissá | |||||
Genitive | δῐσσοῦ dissoû | δῐσσῆς dissês | δῐσσοῦ dissoû | δῐσσοῖν dissoîn | δῐσσαῖν dissaîn | δῐσσοῖν dissoîn | δῐσσῶν dissôn | δῐσσῶν dissôn | δῐσσῶν dissôn | |||||
Dative | δῐσσῷ dissôi | δῐσσῇ dissêi | δῐσσῷ dissôi | δῐσσοῖν dissoîn | δῐσσαῖν dissaîn | δῐσσοῖν dissoîn | δῐσσοῖς dissoîs | δῐσσαῖς dissaîs | δῐσσοῖς dissoîs | |||||
Accusative | δῐσσόν dissón | δῐσσήν dissḗn | δῐσσόν dissón | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσᾱ́ dissā́ | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσούς dissoús | δῐσσᾱ́ς dissā́s | δῐσσᾰ́ dissá | |||||
Vocative | δῐσσέ dissé | δῐσσή dissḗ | δῐσσόν dissón | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσᾱ́ dissā́ | δῐσσώ dissṓ | δῐσσοί dissoí | δῐσσαί dissaí | δῐσσᾰ́ dissá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
δῐσσῶς dissôs | δῐσσότερος dissóteros | δῐσσότᾰτος dissótatos | ||||||||||||
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References
- δισσός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δισσός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δισσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δισσός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- δισσός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter