φώσσων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φώσων (phṓsōn)
Etymology
Probably an Egyptian loanword.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs.sɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰos.son/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸos.son/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfos.son/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfo.son/
Noun
φώσσων • (phṓssōn) m (genitive φώσσωνος); third declension
- coarse linen garment, used in Egypt
- sailcloth
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ φώσσων; τοῦ φώσσωνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φώσσων ho phṓssōn | τὼ φώσσωνε tṑ phṓssōne | οἱ φώσσωνες hoi phṓssōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φώσσωνος toû phṓssōnos | τοῖν φωσσώνοιν toîn phōssṓnoin | τῶν φωσσώνων tôn phōssṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φώσσωνῐ tôi phṓssōni | τοῖν φωσσώνοιν toîn phōssṓnoin | τοῖς φώσσωσῐ / φώσσωσῐν toîs phṓssōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φώσσωνᾰ tòn phṓssōna | τὼ φώσσωνε tṑ phṓssōne | τοὺς φώσσωνᾰς toùs phṓssōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | φώσσων phṓssōn | φώσσωνε phṓssōne | φώσσωνες phṓssōnes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φωσσώνιον (phōssṓnion)
References
- φώσσων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φώσσων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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