ἆσσον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /âːs.son/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.son/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.son/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.son/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.son/
Adverb
ἆσσον • (âsson)
- comparative degree of ἄγχι (ánkhi): nearer
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.567:
- μή νύ τοι οὐ χραίσμωσιν ὅσοι θεοί εἰσ’ ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ ἆσσον ἰόνθ’
- mḗ nú toi ou khraísmōsin hósoi theoí eis’ en Olúmpōi âsson iónth’
- lest all the gods that are in Olympus avail you not against my drawing nearer
- μή νύ τοι οὐ χραίσμωσιν ὅσοι θεοί εἰσ’ ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ ἆσσον ἰόνθ’
Usage notes
Often implies hostile approach.
Derived terms
- ἄσσιστα (ássista)
- ἀσσότατος (assótatos)
- ἀσσοτάτω (assotátō)
- ἀσσότερος (assóteros)
- ἀσσοτέρω (assotérō)
Further reading
- “ἆσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἆσσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἆσσον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἆσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἆσσον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἆσσον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἆσσον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G788 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- near idem, page 553.