ἄλυσσον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually derived from ἀ- (a-, “privative prefix”) + λύσσα (lússa, “rage”).
Noun
ἄλυσσον • (álusson) n (genitive ἀλύσσου); second declension
- name of a certain plant used for curing madness; according to LSJ, specifically madwort (Farsetia clypeata → Fibigia clypeata) and Galen's madwort (Sideritis romana)
Descendants
- Greek: αλύσσο (alýsso)
- → Arabic: أَلُوسَن (ʾalūsan)
- → Middle Armenian: ալուսան (alusan)
- → Persian: آلوسن (âlusan)
- → Latin: alysson
- → French: alysse, alysson
- → Latin: alyssum
- → English: alyssum
- → Translingual: Alyssum
References
- “ἄλυσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄλυσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄλυσσος 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), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
- Farsetia+clypeata at The Plant List
- Sideritis+romana at The Plant List