σοῦσον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Egyptian zšn. Compare also Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”) and Coptic ϣⲱϣⲉⲛ (šōšen).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sûː.son/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsu.son/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsu.son/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsu.son/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsu.son/
Noun
σοῦσον • (soûson) n (genitive σούσου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σοῦσον tò soûson |
τὼ σούσω tṑ soúsō |
τᾰ̀ σοῦσᾰ tằ soûsă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σούσου toû soúsou |
τοῖν σούσοιν toîn soúsoin |
τῶν σούσων tôn soúsōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σούσῳ tōî soúsōi |
τοῖν σούσοιν toîn soúsoin |
τοῖς σούσοις toîs soúsois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σοῦσον tò soûson |
τὼ σούσω tṑ soúsō |
τᾰ̀ σοῦσᾰ tằ soûsă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σοῦσον soûson |
σούσω soúsō |
σοῦσᾰ soûsă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σούσῐνος (soúsĭnos)
Descendants
- → Middle Persian: [script needed] (swsn' /sōsan/)
Further reading
- “σοῦσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σοῦσον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σοῦσον 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