βήσσαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin bessālis (“of eight unciae”). The original Latin term was used to describe to describe the dimensions of building materials; this usage may have led it to the term being adopted into Greek as a term for bricks.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːs.sa.lon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbe̝s.sa.lon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβis.sa.lon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.sa.lon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sa.lon/

Noun

βήσσαλον • (bḗssalon) n (genitive βήσσαλου); second declension

(Byzantine) brick

Declension

Second declension of τὸ βήσσαλον; τοῦ βησσάλου (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βήσσαλον tò bḗssalon	τὼ βησσάλω tṑ bēssálō	τᾰ̀ βήσσαλᾰ tằ bḗssală
Genitive	τοῦ βησσάλου toû bēssálou	τοῖν βησσάλοιν toîn bēssáloin	τῶν βησσάλων tôn bēssálōn
Dative	τῷ βησσάλῳ tōî bēssálōi	τοῖν βησσάλοιν toîn bēssáloin	τοῖς βησσάλοις toîs bēssálois
Accusative	τὸ βήσσαλον tò bḗssalon	τὼ βησσάλω tṑ bēssálō	τᾰ̀ βήσσαλᾰ tằ bḗssală
Vocative	βήσσαλον bḗssalon	βησσάλω bēssálō	βήσσαλᾰ bḗssală
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Alternative forms

βήσαλον (bḗsalon)

Derived terms

βησσαλωτός (bēssalōtós)
βησσαλικός (bēssalikós)

Descendants

Greek: βότσαλο (vótsalo)

References

βήσσαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βήσσαλον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
1900, Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, Joseph Henry Thayer, Henry Drisler, Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods (From B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100)‎^[1] (in English), C. Scribner's Sons, page 307: