βύσσα
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /býs.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbys.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβys.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvys.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βῠ́σσᾰ • (bŭ́ssă) f (genitive βῠ́σσης); first declension
- unknown kind of bird
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βῠ́σσᾰ hē bŭ́ssă |
τὼ βῠ́σσᾱ tṑ bŭ́ssā |
αἱ βῠ́σσαι hai bŭ́ssai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βῠ́σσης tês bŭ́ssēs |
τοῖν βῠ́σσαιν toîn bŭ́ssain |
τῶν βῠσσῶν tôn bŭssôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βῠ́σσῃ tēî bŭ́ssēi |
τοῖν βῠ́σσαιν toîn bŭ́ssain |
ταῖς βῠ́σσαις taîs bŭ́ssais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βῠ́σσᾰν tḕn bŭ́ssăn |
τὼ βῠ́σσᾱ tṑ bŭ́ssā |
τᾱ̀ς βῠ́σσᾱς tā̀s bŭ́ssās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βῠ́σσᾰ bŭ́ssă |
βῠ́σσᾱ bŭ́ssā |
βῠ́σσαι bŭ́ssai | ||||||||||
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /býs.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbys.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβys.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvys.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βύσσα • (bússa)
- alternative form of βυσσός (bussós)
Further reading
- “βύσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βύσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βύσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βύσσα”, 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