βρύσσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄμβρυττος (ámbruttos)
• βρύττος (brúttos) — Attic

Etymology

The variants, together with the prenasalization, prove that this is a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brýs.sos/ → /ˈβrys.sos/ → /ˈvri.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brýs.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbrys.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβrys.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvrys.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvri.sos/

Noun

βρῠ́σσος • (brússos) m (genitive βρῠ́σσου); second declension

1. kind of sea urchin

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρῠ́σσος; τοῦ βρῠ́σσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βρῠ́σσος ho brússos	τὼ βρῠ́σσω tṑ brússō	οἱ βρῠ́σσοι hoi brússoi
Genitive	τοῦ βρῠ́σσου toû brússou	τοῖν βρῠ́σσοιν toîn brússoin	τῶν βρῠ́σσων tôn brússōn
Dative	τῷ βρῠ́σσῳ tôi brússōi	τοῖν βρῠ́σσοιν toîn brússoin	τοῖς βρῠ́σσοις toîs brússois
Accusative	τὸν βρῠ́σσον tòn brússon	τὼ βρῠ́σσω tṑ brússō	τοὺς βρῠ́σσους toùs brússous
Vocative	βρῠ́σσε brússe	βρῠ́σσω brússō	βρῠ́σσοι brússoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βρύσσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βρύσσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βρύσσος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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
• “βρύσσος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011