ἧσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἧττα (hêtta) – Attic

Etymology

Back-formation from ἥσσων (hḗssōn, “inferior, weaker”), reflecting possibly Proto-Indo-European *seh₁k- (“slow”). Compare ἦκα (êka, “slowly, quietly”) and Latin sēgnis (“slow, tardy”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛ̂ːs.sa/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e̝s.sa/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.sa/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.sa/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.sa/

Noun

ἧσσᾰ • (hêssa) f (genitive ἥσσης); first declension

defeat, discomfiture

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἧσσᾰ; τῆς ἥσσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἧσσᾰ hē hêssa	τὼ ἥσσᾱ tṑ hḗssā	αἱ ἧσσαι hai hêssai
Genitive	τῆς ἥσσης tês hḗssēs	τοῖν ἥσσαιν toîn hḗssain	τῶν ἡσσῶν tôn hēssôn
Dative	τῇ ἥσσῃ têi hḗssēi	τοῖν ἥσσαιν toîn hḗssain	ταῖς ἥσσαις taîs hḗssais
Accusative	τὴν ἧσσᾰν tḕn hêssan	τὼ ἥσσᾱ tṑ hḗssā	τᾱ̀ς ἥσσᾱς tā̀s hḗssās
Vocative	ἧσσᾰ hêssa	ἥσσᾱ hḗssā	ἧσσαι hêssai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἡσσάομαι (hēssáomai)
ἡσσητέος (hēssētéos)

Descendants

Greek: ήττα (ítta)

References

“ἧσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἧσσα 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