βύρσα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A loanword of unknown, possibly Pre-Greek, origin.[1] Perhaps cognate with Hittite 𒆳𒊭𒀸 (kur-ša-aš); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /býr.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbyr.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβyr.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvyr.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvir.sa/
Noun
βῠ́ρσᾰ • (bŭ́rsă) f (genitive βῠ́ρσης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βῠ́ρσᾰ hē bŭ́rsă |
τὼ βῠ́ρσᾱ tṑ bŭ́rsā |
αἱ βῠ́ρσαι hai bŭ́rsai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βῠ́ρσης tês bŭ́rsēs |
τοῖν βῠ́ρσαιν toîn bŭ́rsain |
τῶν βῠρσῶν tôn bŭrsôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βῠ́ρσῃ tēî bŭ́rsēi |
τοῖν βῠ́ρσαιν toîn bŭ́rsain |
ταῖς βῠ́ρσαις taîs bŭ́rsais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βῠ́ρσᾰν tḕn bŭ́rsăn |
τὼ βῠ́ρσᾱ tṑ bŭ́rsā |
τᾱ̀ς βῠ́ρσᾱς tā̀s bŭ́rsās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βῠ́ρσᾰ bŭ́rsă |
βῠ́ρσᾱ bŭ́rsā |
βῠ́ρσαι bŭ́rsai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βύρσινος (búrsinos)
Descendants
- → Latin: bursa (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βύρσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 249
Further reading
- “βύρσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βύρσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βύρσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βύρσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- βύρσα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- βύρσα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011