σῶσσος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (šu-ši /šūš/, “a unit of sixty”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sɔ̂ːs.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsos.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsos.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsos.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈso.sos/
Noun
σῶσσος • (sôssos) m (genitive σώσσου); second declension
- (in Babylon) sossos, a period of 60 years
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σῶσσος; τοῦ σώσσου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σῶσσος ho sôssos | τὼ σώσσω tṑ sṓssō | οἱ σῶσσοι hoi sôssoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σώσσου toû sṓssou | τοῖν σώσσοιν toîn sṓssoin | τῶν σώσσων tôn sṓssōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σώσσῳ tôi sṓssōi | σώσσοιν sṓssoin | τοῖς σώσσοις toîs sṓssois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σῶσσον tòn sôsson | σώσσω sṓssō | τοὺς σώσσους toùs sṓssous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῶσσε sôsse | σώσσω sṓssō | σῶσσοι sôssoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: sossos
See also
- νῆρος (nêros)
- σᾰ́ρος (sáros)
Further reading
- σῶσσος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften